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Lead Successful Projects
Are you struggling to juggle multiple projects? Do you often lose control of your budget? Does communicating your progress to the rest of your team cause you undue stress?
Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Project Management, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs.
Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.
Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Project Management, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs.
Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.
- GenresBusiness
176 pages, Paperback
Published September 26, 2019
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About the author
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
11 books14 followersAntonio 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.
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.
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August 21, 2021
Big thank you to the author Mr. Antonio for sharing his view and experience on project management with us through this lovely book. I enjoyed it very much and got distinctive insight about some if the application and implication of PM. I'm in a situation right now that requires some additional knowledge and prospectives. The book structure on way that can be read easily following sequential approach that include 10 catchy steps to comprehend with lots of support cases and examples.
Ali
Ali
June 24, 2022
Pragmatic approach to project management with added "project managers will rule the world mwah-ha-ha"
February 23, 2024
Essential reading for project leaders. Managing projects is demystified and what we read here is not just theoretical but actionable.
May 17, 2020
Zeer goed en leerrijk boek. Ik was in de indruk van de nieuwe inzichten die de auteur uit legt in het boek. Een echte aanrader.
May 17, 2020
Zeer goed en leerrijk boek. Ik was in de indruk van de nieuwe inzichten die de auteur uit legt in het boek. Een echte aanrader. Antonio bewijst dat hij een van de beste project managers is.
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