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What Every Manager Needs to Know about Project Management

July 15, 1988 | W. Alan Randolph , Barry Z. Posner | Operations

This paper offers ten commonsense principles that will help project managers define goals, establish checkpoints, schedules, and resource requirements, motivate and empower team members, facilitate communication, and manage conflict.

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