What Every Manager Needs to Know About Project Management

Authors

Barry Z. Posner, Santa Clara UniversityFollow
W. Alan Randolph

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1988

Publisher

MIT Press

Abstract

This paper offers ten commonsense principles that will help project managers define goals, establish checkpoints, schedules, and resource requirements, motivate and empower team members, facilitate communication, and manage conflict.

Comments

Copyright © 1988 MIT Press. This article first appeared in Sloan Management review 29:4 (1988), 65-73. Reprinted with permission by MIT Press. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/

Recommended Citation

Posner, Barry Z. and Randolph, W.A. (1988) What Every Manager Needs to Know About Project Management, Sloan Management Review, 29(4):65-73.