Deadline! : how premier organizations win the race against time / Dan Carrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrison, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time management--United States--Case studies.

Time management.

Deadlines--United States--Case studies.

Deadlines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Amacom, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adventure stories for today's fast-paced business environment!

Contents:

Turner Construction Company makes the Rocky Mountains thunder : delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium, ahead of time and under budget

Airborne Express and the technicolor challenge : Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and Fedex had backed away

Mission to Mars

the 2001 Odyssey orbiter : successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science"

The ultimate deadline

how the FBI manages a kidnapping : agents rush to meet a literal "drop dead" deadline

Boeing's race to deliver the 777 Wide-Body : a plane, and a management philosophy, for the twenty-first century

Conoco's weekend of caring : volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8144-2677-8

OCLC:

475962454