HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Projects and Initiatives: HBR's 10 Must Reads

  • 5h 12m 26s
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Gildan Media
  • 2024

Everyone is now a project leader—learn how to manage them more effectively.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on managing projects and initiatives, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you lead initiatives that will inspire your people, tackle your biggest challenges with agile, and prepare yourself and your organization for a world driven by projects.

This book will inspire you to reap benefits from your initiatives more quickly; become a better project sponsor; kill initiatives that aren't performing; navigate the politics of innovation projects; keep AI and digital transformation on track; and prepare for the next generation of project management tools.

HBR's 10 Must Reads series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. The series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself.

About the Author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 11 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

In this Audiobook

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 - The Project Economy Has Arrived by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
  • Chapter 2 - Too Many Projects by Rose Hollister and Michael D. Watkins
  • Chapter 3 - Increase Your Return on Failure by Julian Birkinshaw and Martine Haas
  • Chapter 4 - How to Navigate the Politics of an Innovation Project by Brian Uzzi
  • Chapter 5 - Cultural Change That Sticks by Jon R. Katzenbach, Ilona Steffen, and Caroline Kronley
  • Chapter 6 - Agile at Scale by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Andy Noble
  • Chapter 7 - For an Agile Transformation, Choose the Right People by Rob Cross, Heidi K. Gardner, and Alia Crocker
  • Chapter 8 - Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation by Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus
  • Chapter 9 - Keep Your AI Projects on Track by Iavor Bojinov
  • Chapter 10 - A New Approach for Strategic Innovation by Haijian Si, Christoph Loch, and Stelios Kavadias
  • Chapter 11 - The Rise of the Chief Project Officer by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
  • Chapter 12 - Make Megaprojects More Modular by Bent Flyvbjerg
  • Chapter 13 - What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like by Rachel Longhurst and Woojin Choi
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