‘Het perfecte project’ is now also available in English!

The Perfect Project

Why People Are Key To Success

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Publication date 1 December 2024

SYNOPSIS

Traditional project management leads to a huge waste of time, money, and human talent. Two-thirds of all projects, large or small, end in failure, always and everywhere. Still, your project can be a success when you put people center stage.

Forget everything you have ever learned about project management up until now. The never-ending Fail Trail can only be turned into a continuous Cycle of Success when you start pushing the right buttons. Look beyond the length of your project nose and get your project people out of the toolbox:

– Put the right leader in the right place!
– Think maturely and act like an adult!
– Lift your finger when you don’t like it!

 In this book, stacked with frontally confrontational examples, anecdotes and hands-on tips & tricks, Bart Flos offers you a simple yet revolutionary body of thought to unmask botched-up projects, turning them into Perfect Projects.

Bart Flos has over 25 years of experience as project, change and crisis manager and has saved numerous projects from doom and failure. In the Netherlands, Flos is the bestselling author of Het anti-klaagboek, available in English as The Anti-Complain Book. He is a well-known public speaker and workshop leader, fascinated by the human condition and our struggle with continuous change.

Want to learn more? Go to www.hetperfecteproject.nl !

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Why are we monkeying around all the time?
James Bond doesn’t exist
Unmask your botched up project
Do you ever go shopping?

INTRODUCTION

Listening to Mr. Murphy
Project botch-ups for professionals
The Seven-Tiered Hour Glass

CHAPTER 1 | Don’t rush into your project

About the energy management of a project
The Project Match Test
The PIVOT-lists
PIVOT-lists as a thermometer
How do you unlearn a salesman’s tricks?
On steering with bonuses

CHAPTER 2 | Dare to stop when it goes haywire

Soldering until the cows come home
The visible project versus the intangible product
The strength and weakness of a project team
Causes of non-intervention
The S.T.O.P.-Principle
The Status Totalus
The frontal confrontation with information
On whistleblowers and scapegoats
The Anti-Botch-Up Quadrant

CHAPTER 3 | Get to the root of your problems

Project distinctiveness
The secondary fire triangle
The Problem Analysis Checklist
The function of rubber stamp issues
Think-Tanking with Brainpower

CHAPTER 4 | Act like an entrepreneur

When managers act weird, give them weird back
On the difference between a process and a project
Between organizational maturity and entrepreneurship
How to differentiate organizational maturity
The Project Botch-Up Test
The Seven Consultation Questions

CHAPTER 5 | Evaluate, share and celebrate

About the definition of project success
All success is relative
Projects have a short-term memory
Spread the word!
The Success Analysis Checklist

CHAPTER 6 | Perfectionize your project

The Project Cycle of Success v. the Project Fail Trail
Take right and matters into your own hands
When is your project perfect?

EPILOGUE

The Chunnel Project
Inviting Mr. Murphy