The Lazy Project Manager How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early Peter Taylor Books
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Peter Taylor reveals how adopting a more focused approach to life, projects and work can make you twice as productive. The lazy project manager illustrates how anyone can apply the simple techniques of lazy project management in their own activities in order to work more effectively and consequently improve work-life balance. This 'productive laziness' approach builds on the Pareto principle that states that for many phenomena, 80 per cent of consequences stem from 20 per cent of the causes. To put it simply, only 20 per cent of the things people do during their working days really matter. Inside this insightful and informative book you'll discover * The intelligence of laziness - why smart, lazy people have the edge over others; * Why the Jungle Book's 'Bare Necessities' should be the productive lazy theme tune; * How to get the maximum output for a minimised input; * Quick tips to productive lazy heaven. Everyone wants to achieve more without chaining themselves to their desk. By concentrating your project management and learning to exercise effort where it really matters, you can learn to work smarter. Welcome to the home of 'productive laziness'.
The Lazy Project Manager How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early Peter Taylor Books
I would give it 3.5 stars if I could. It is light reading with a few useful tips in the reading. The book has a lot of dead space with a few diagrams throughout to illustrate a point, both of which make for a quick read. It would be a good read on a long plane ride if that is your thing. The author reminded me a lot of Seth Godin with the Purple Cow except this time instead of Products we are talking about Management.Peter, if you read this you should change the line talking about PM's reading the news paper at the desk to surfing the internet haha.
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The Lazy Project Manager How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early Peter Taylor Books Reviews
A tiny book of home spun, in-the-trenches wisdom from a project manager that's clearly experienced the trials and tribulations of many development cycles. For those familiar with routine issues faced by projects, Taylor's stories and advice will ring true in a concise, practical manner you'll want to pass around the office.
Great book for someone wanting to enter the business world or get their own life organized and start operating efficiently.
I am a professional with experience of many 'projects' without them actually being called that. I won a contract with "Project Manager" in the title and specific accountability for the planning and administration of other team members. I wanted an initial 'high level overview' of the role before starting on a more formal and technical study. This book did the job perfectly.
This book is a quick read, you can complete within 2 to 4 hours depending on your reading speed. Like the author writes in the book, this is not a book delving in to details of Project Management but a book providing wisdom based on authors experience for productive PMs. I enjoyed reading it and will surely experiment with some of the tricks to be a lazy productive Project Manager!
It's is a pleasure to have read Peter Taylor's deeply experienced perspective on Project Management. The book is a delight and it's focus on "blocking and tackling" is refreshing. The lessons learned here form an excellent checklist that every project manager should commit to memory.
This is an excellent read on how to make our jobs easier as PM's. It is written with a sense of humor and humility that made it easy for me to engage and learn. Peter pairs advice with real life experiences to make understanding how you can have a positive impact on the projects you manage, all while doing less work. If you have ever had to defend, or wondered yourself about, the value of thoughtful planning, warm and fuzzy team building, or the need to communicate to stakeholders, you will find examples of what goes well when done properly and doesn't go so well when missed in The Lazy Project Manager. Let the experiences of Peter and his past colleagues entertain and educate you.
As an added bonus, you'll get a quick and easy test you can apply to your sponsors, coworkers, and friends to determine who the psychopaths are. I am happy to report that none of my friends that responded on Facebook are psychopaths.
"All projects are thick at one end, much, much thinner in the middle, and then thick again at the far end," according to Peter Taylor in this book. Thus projects are the inverse of brontosauruses, which are thin at both ends and thick in the middle. Most of the book is structured around this idea of what you need to do at the beginning of a project, what you need to do in the middle, and what you need to do at the end.
The author is happy to dispense some Machiavellian advice "It's important to let everyone know that you have arrived and that you demand that things are done your way, the right way," and "A good way to gain the upper hand is to ensure that the people...who may give you some problems have deliverables very early on in the project." This advice is good advice, even if expressed in a somewhat blunt manner.
The book is short and entertaining, but it does contain a lot of practical wisdom on project management, particularly in the chapters on "Quick Tips to Productive Lazy Heaven" and "Even Quicker Tips for the Really Lazy". You could get much of the productive value from the book just by reading those chapters, but then you would miss out on the author's witticisms and strange and wonderful stories.
I would give it 3.5 stars if I could. It is light reading with a few useful tips in the reading. The book has a lot of dead space with a few diagrams throughout to illustrate a point, both of which make for a quick read. It would be a good read on a long plane ride if that is your thing. The author reminded me a lot of Seth Godin with the Purple Cow except this time instead of Products we are talking about Management.
Peter, if you read this you should change the line talking about PM's reading the news paper at the desk to surfing the internet haha.
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