Publisher's Synopsis
Lessons Learned on the Road from Plant to Pentagon
To do a job well, you need the right tools for the job, as any skilled tradesperson will tell you.
Project managers, however, do not have a standard set of tools. In fact, sometimes they have to make their own.
In Working Up! Dwayne Phillips describes the tools and techniques he first encountered as a laborer at an asphalt plant, working summers during college. These lessons guided him as he went on to a successful career as a systems developer, IT manager, consultant, and author.
From a unique synthesis of two work environments -- an asphalt plant and a white-collar office building -- Phillips helps managers develop tools from their environments and construct a management approach that works.
Topics include:
* matching tools to environments
* learning through experience
* working with and through people
* chance -- and risk -- at work
* and much more
