Mega Projects Mega Realities: Live-wire Lessons For CEOs and Project Managers

by Harish Kumar

Mega Projects Mega Realities is a compact handbook that offers live-wire mega project lessons for CEOs and project managers. The seven unforgettable mega project lessons presented in the book have been immortalised through real-life corporate anecdotes. A must-read for CEOs, project managers, B-school academics, MBA students and corporate investors - in fact, for everyone who has a stake in the success of mega projects and their implementing corporations. Managing mega projects is a Herculean task, a task riddled with real possibilities of cash-burns and heartburns. But, manage you must. Must, not just for your success, for your survival too. As markets go global, as national boundaries melt away, as competition gets murderous, global corporations, their CEOs, and project managers need to ensure their projects satisfy the global norms of scale and size. As you get down to translate your mega project dreams, you re sure to run over countless land-mines and booby-traps. Where could you go wrong? What errors could you commit? Where could you fail? What could be your misses? Mega Projects Meg Realities is sure to offer convincing answers to all these brain-wracking questions.

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 12, 2015