Sandra Mikesell, Thomas Ireland
ASIN: B00ID6Q34A
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 202
“Program Management: The Path To Leadership” is about the leadership skills that program managers are exposed to more than almost any other career field. This book is about what program managers themselves are and what they as professionals can be. It is about what these professionals are and do. It is not about the profession itself.Program managers are among those very few direct contributors who have leadership activities embedded in their daily routine. Program managers are consistently dealing with creating teams with a mission of taking a project from concept to completion. They are given a singular mission with a vision at the end of a definite or indefinite planning horizon. They create a set of tasks that become a tactical path to a strategic target that is the end goal they are assigned. They do this with a collection of people who they may or may not have worked with before ...