Powered by Projects: Leading Your Organization in the Transformation Age

by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

The future of business is built on projects—learn how to lead them to fuel your company's growth.

The business landscape has irrevocably shifted. Constant transformation has become the norm. Projects and initiatives are now the primary ways organizations drive value, strategic growth, and innovation. In this new paradigm—the project economy—new approaches are needed for sustained success. Modern project management tools and capabilities are essential, but they are only the beginning.

Powered by Leading Your Organization in the Transformation Age offers a bold new blueprint. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, the worldwide expert on projects-first cultures, shows readers how to embrace the deep changes in leadership style and organizational structures necessary for projects and initiatives to flourish. Exploring the practical strategies and deep case studies of project-driven organizations, you will learn

Decentralize decision-making to empower people to break through the bottlenecks that slow down transformationPrioritize ruthlessly and sponsor actively to ensure resources are directed to high-value initiativesDevelop your organization's transformation muscles to remain resilient, adaptive, and relevantMeasure success with project-specific metrics, aligning team goals with organizational incentivesIntegrate project analytics and AI to support real-time decision-making, predictive planning, and risk reductionCultivate the next generation of project leaders who will drive the implementation of your initiatives faster and with higher impact

This book is a new manifesto for CEOs, transformation drivers, and project leaders. Lead with agility and purpose. Embrace the project economy. And thrive in a world where projects are the path to success.

1 pages, Audio CD

Expected publication January 20, 2026

About the author

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is the head of Transversal Portfolio Management and in charge of the entire portfolio and project management practices at BNP Paribas Fortis. In addition to being member of the board of the London Business School Alumni in Belgium, he has been recently elected as member of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute, which is the largest association in project management with more than 800.000 members across 185 countries.

Prior of this, Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez was the head of post-merger integration at Fortis Bank, leading what was the largest takeover in the financial service history: the acquisition of ABN AMRO. Before that, he worked for 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior manager, becoming the global lead practitioner for project and change management.

The author of the book The Focused Organization (www.thefocusedorganization.com), Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez has been featured in several magazines, including PM Network®, Strategy Business Review and The Economist. He is also the author of the white paper Boosting Business Performance through Programme and Project Management, which was written after he conducted one of the first global project management maturity surveys. He is the founder of the largest LinkedIn group around strategy execution (StrateXecution) with more than 4.100 members worldwide.

Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez is a professor of project management and strategy execution for MBA students at several business schools, and is a regular keynote speaker at large international events where he speaks on the strategic value of project management; he is often voted as ‘best speaker’. Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez undertook undergraduate studies in Germany, Mexico, Italy and the United States and has a university degree in economics from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He has an MBA from London Business School and is fluent in Spanish, English, French, Dutch, Italian and German. As a hobby, Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez teaches business students and convinces senior leaders about the value of project management, positioning project management as a key management concept for executing organizations strategies.