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Leadership lessons from the race to the South Pole : why Amundsen lived and Scott died / Fergus O'Connell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connell, Fergus.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership--Case studies.
- Leadership.
- Project management--Case studies.
- Project management.
- Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--British--Case studies.
- Antarctica.
- Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Norwegian--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A project management expert identifies methods for running any project successfully based on lessons learned from the exploits of two storied explorers.
- Contents:
- Eyes on the prize
- The devil is in the details
- There must be one leader
- Picking the right people
- What if things go wrong?
- Setting the stakeholders' expectations
- Using the right leadership style
- Tracking progress
- Reporting progress
- Learning from completed projects
- The method
- How to assess a project in five minutes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400677663
- 9798216109907
- 9781440835018
- 1440835012
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5040/9798400677663
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