This book provides an effective overall approach and concrete action strategies to help readers
quickly grasp key aspects of project management and reduce the pressure during the learning
process so that they can soon start enjoying the fruits of successful project management. The
problems discussed in this book have been drawn both from several years of theoretical research
on the part of the author and from communications between the author and hundreds of business
executives and project managers from many domestic and international EMBA and CEO classes. The
book's unique content is written in an easy-to-follow tone with typical Chinese systemic and
dialectical thinking intended to help readers find the appropriate way to solve problems as
they encounter them. One of the popular misunderstandings about project management is to make
project managers to take most of the responsibilities for project success i.e. senior managers
in companies usually think project management is not their business. This book puts project
management in business context to eliminate this misunderstanding and demonstrates that: only
if the senior managers recognize the value of projects and play their roles in project
governance and project management right their companies can survive and develop in the
changing society. In order to solve the contradiction between the uniqueness of a project and
the efficiency reliability of its management this book examines based on Chinese dialectical
logic the basic preparation needed for successful project management including how to use
unified principles to manage projects with different characteristics how to create
company-wide project governance infrastructure to make project managers to be able to take
their management responsibilities and how to establish effective relationships among project
stakeholders to make unique projects to be manageable structured partner social networks etc.
This book explains how to deal with the key contradictions existing in each phase of a project
from project decision-making to close-out. This book is basically for both top managers of
companies and project managers so it addresses many challenges companies and project managers
will have to face in the changing society and provides essential strategies and methods for
overcoming them. This book is not an another book to talk about project management knowledge or
successful project management stories it is about basic project thinking and corresponding
insights to deal with key common issues in projects which are essential to manage projects and
even companies reliably in the changing and unreliable society.
