With a background in industry and science and a leader of 250 project teams, Wong attempts to provide a summary of “people-based” management concepts and tools for project managers. Despite the increased use of team and facilitative methods in project management, there has been a gap in understanding how teams can be motivated to high performance–abstract project management processess are not enough. Wong focuses on giving team leaders tools for: Team Development Facilitation Aligning Values and Behavior Managing Conflict Finding the Team “Sweet Spot” Understanding the Role of Personality Motivating the Heart and Mind
Book Details:
- Author: Zachary Wong
- ISBN: 9780787996291
- Year Published: 2007
- Pages: 368
- BISAC: BUS101000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Project Management
About the Book and Topic:
With a background in industry and science and a leader of 250 project teams, Wong attempts to provide a summary of “people-based” management concepts and tools for project managers. Despite the increased use of team and facilitative methods in project management, there has been a gap in understanding how teams can be motivated to high performance–abstract project management processess are not enough. Wong focuses on giving team leaders tools for: Team Development Facilitation Aligning Values and Behavior Managing Conflict Finding the Team “Sweet Spot” Understanding the Role of Personality Motivating the Heart and Mind
Foreword by Chevron CEO/Chairman David O’Reilly. Strong Chevron support for this book will deliver a minimum 500 books/year sales to its Chevron Technical University and its other Project Management training programs. New and Unique Approach. Project management emphasizes process, and project management instruction has tended to downplay lessons from organizational behavior, team dynamics, mulitcultural diversity, and human personality. As a senior exec, Wong is the perfect evangelist for “soft” management lessons for technology and manufacturing project professionals. Integrates well with PMBOK 3 and other key PMI training and texts. Wong looks at the “human side” of projects and shows how key concepts and tools can keep the project team from slipping into dysfunction. Strong Academic Market. Will be endorsed by Clara Piloto, Program Director for Project Management at UC-Berkeley, and a board member of the International Project Management Education Union of ten leading schools. Adoption as a core text by IPMEU should deliver 800-1000 yearly text sales.
About the Author
Zachary Wong is a Senior Business Analyst reporting directly to Chevron’s Chairman and CEO. He is also a board director for two Chevron subsidiaries, as well as two industry associations: The American Industrial Hygiene Conference and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology. In his free time, he is an instructor in project management at UC-Berkeley in its Engineering/Business and Project Management extension programs. He also teaches at Chevron Technical University where he was awarded Instructor of the Year from 2002-2004. He holds a Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of California at Davis.