Mindful Project Management - 2nd Edition

Name: Mindful Project Management - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Mindful Project ManagementResilient Performance Beyond the Risk Horizon\nAuthor(s): Elmar Kutsch, Mark Hall\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367497484, 978-0367497484\nSynopsis\nCentral to the issue of improving project performance is the application of deterministic, probabilistic processes, and techniques to reduce human error. To that end, we as project managers often endeavour to implement and follow a project management methodology in the belief that we can reduce the scope for emerging ambiguous requirements, ill-matched resource needs and availability, contractual and funding constraints, and other unwanted uncertainties. However, such self-evidently correct processes are not without their limitations. \n\nThe management of uncertainty needs to be viewed not from a procedural, stand-alone perspective but from a behavioural, people-driven perspective that is, Mindfulness. Mindfulness is a project-wide hum.