Managing Projects and Initiatives

Everyone leads projects. Learn how to manage them more effectively.If you read nothing else on leading projects large and small read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you manage initiatives that will inspire your people tackle your biggest challenges using agile and prepare yourself and your organization for a world driven by projects.This book will inspire you to:Reap benefits from your initiatives more quicklyBecome a better project sponsorKill initiatives that aren't performingNavigate the politics of innovation projectsKeep AI and digital transformation on trackPrepare for the next generation of project management toolsThis collection of articles includes The Project Economy Has Arrived by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez; Too Many Projects by Rose Hollister and Michael D. Watkins; Increase Your Return on Failure by Julian Birkinshaw and Martine Haas; How to Navigate the Politics of an Innovation Project by Brian Uzzi; Cultural Change That Sticks by Jon R. Katzenbach Ilona Steffen and Caroline Kronley; Agile at Scale by Darrell K. Rigby Jeff Sutherland and Andy Noble; For an Agile Transformation Choose the Right People by Rob Cross Heidi K. Gardner and Alia Crocker; Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation by Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus; Keep Your AI Projects on Track by Iavor Bojinov; A New Approach for Strategic Innovation by Haijian Si Christoph Loch and Stelios Kavadias; The Rise of the Chief Project Officer by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez; Make Megaprojects More Modular by Bent Flyvbjerg; and What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like by Rachel Longhurst and Woojin Choi.HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership strategy change managing people and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment.