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A Practical Guide to Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders
Contributor(s): Holloway, Jake (Author), Bryde, David (Author)
ISBN: 1409407373     ISBN-13: 9781409407379
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $49.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Project Management
- Business & Economics | New Business Enterprises
Dewey: 658.404
LCCN: 2015003789
Series: Advances in Project Management
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.41 lbs) 122 pages
 
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All project stakeholders have different needs, objectives, responsibilities and priorities. For many project managers it is disturbing to realise that, for any number of personal or professional reasons, some of their stakeholders may not be as co-operative and helpful as they expect. It could be a negative and powerful sponsor (the 'Anti-sponsor'), a demotivated team, low-maturity or unrealistic external clients, maliciously compliant gatekeepers and finance teams, or uninterested internal customers. The reality of project management is that stakeholders can be difficult Jake Holloway, Professor David Bryde and Roger Joby bring their years of project management experience and combine it with research and insight from social psychology to delve into how and why project stakeholders can be difficult. The book describes some of the common stakeholder types - such as Sponsors, the Team, Gatekeepers, Clients and Contractors - and associated unhelpful or difficult behaviour profiles that you will often come across on projects. It then provides practical ideas, techniques and methods that will help the project manager to effectively manage the impact of these stakeholders on the project. As projects get larger and more complicated, the role and influence of stakeholders grows too. A Practical Guide to Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders will provide your project teams with the basis for a more sophisticated and resilient approach to stakeholder management.