Project Management Handbook

Project Management Handbook

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7656951/Project-Management-Handbook

Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager

"(1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. ..."

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/11/sabotage-manual-from.html

Project Management

"Project management is a carefully planned and organized effort to accomplish a specific (and usually) one-time effort, for example, construct a building or implement a new computer system. Project management includes developing a project plan, which includes defining project goals and objectives, specifying tasks or how goals will be achieved, what resources are need, and associating budgets and timelines for completion. It also includes implementing the project plan, along with careful controls to stay on the "critical path", that is, to ensure the plan is being managed according to plan. Project management usually follows major phases (with various titles for these phases), including feasibility study, project planning, implementation, evaluation and support/maintenance. (Program planning is usually of a broader scope than project planning, but not always.)"

http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/project/project.htm

Radical transparency

"Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making is carried out publicly.

All draft documents, all arguments for and against a proposal, the decisions about the decision making process itself, and all final decisions, are made publicly and remain publicly archived.

The only exceptions to full transparency include data related to personal security or passwords or keys necessary for physical access required to carry out publicly negotiated decisions. Any technical actions which are perceived to be controversial or political are considered to lack legitimacy until a clear, radically transparent decision has been made concerning them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_transparency

"But here's the interesting paradox: The reputation economy creates an incentive to be more open, not less. Since Internet commentary is inescapable, the only way to influence it is to be part of it. Being transparent, opening up, posting interesting material frequently and often is the only way to amass positive links to yourself and thus to directly influence your Googleable reputation. Putting out more evasion or PR puffery won't work, because people will either ignore it and not link to it - or worse, pick the spin apart and enshrine those criticisms high on your Google list of life."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/wired40_ceo.html

Wiki at Work

"Your company is more likely to attract the brightest and keep them if its own internal communications reflect the slick, collaborative informality of Web 2.0, with its blogs, wikis and social-networking sites. So there's a good case for going with the techno-flow rather than clamping down on personal e-mail and internet use ..."

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/search/article/771021/wiki-work/