New Book Provides Crystal Clear Guidance For Improving Project Results, Organizational Performance and Employee Morale

CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Is there underperformance anywhere in your organization? Are people getting frustrated? If so, here’s a new resource for turning the situation around – Everything’s A Project: 70 Lessons From Successful Project-Driven Organizations.

This fast-paced book is based on three premises:

1. The ways you manage projects, people and organizational culture are inextricably linked. If you are not getting the project results you want, looking solely at project management practices is insufficient. You need to examine how your people management strategies and your culture are working for or against your quest for quality, efficiency, timeliness and cost control.

2. If you want great project results throughout your organization, the executive team needs to be deeply involved, willing to challenge sacred cows and implement systemic changes. Individual project managers do not have the authority to alter corporate culture or your organization’s approach to people management.

3. Most organizations view the term “project” too narrowly. They tend to think of R&D or IT efforts. In reality, nearly all corporate work today is in the form of projects. This means virtually all employees are project workers. Many, if not most, are using ad-hoc methods to accomplish their work because they don’t have any formal project training. If you want great results, more people need access to best-practice processes and tools.

Author Ben Snyder is CEO of Systemation, a performance improvement consulting firm.

In 70 brief chapters, he provides crisp how-to information for the executive suite, managers and project leaders. Here’s a brief sampler of the topics covered:

• 9 symptoms of poor project management.
• 5 things that keep team members from delivering high quality, on time and on budget.
• 3 actions to ensure your vision becomes reality.
• 4 ways to create and preserve a vibrant corporate culture.
• 7 tenets for project success.
• 4 aptitudes of good project managers.
• 3 forms of organizational drama and how to eliminate them.

You’ll come away with a clear picture of barriers to high performance in your organization. You’ll also gain tips for building buy-in when implementing change.

Everything’s A Project is available in both hard cover and e-reader versions. To order, visit http://everythingsaprojectbook.com/. For more information about the book or Systemation, contact Laurel Cagan at 1-800-747-9783.