Lessons
Learned on the Road from Plant to Pentagon
To do a job well, you need the
right tools for the job, as any skilled tradesperson will tell you.
Project
managers, however, do not have a standard set of tools. In fact, sometimes they
have to make their own.
In Working Up! Dwayne Phillips
describes the tools and techniques he first encountered as a laborer at an asphalt
plant, working summers during college. These lessons guided him as he went on
to a successful career as a systems developer, IT manager, consultant, and author.
From
a unique synthesis of two work environments -- an asphalt plant and a white-collar
office building -- Phillips helps managers develop tools from their environments
and construct a management approach that works.
Topics include:
matching tools to environments
learning through
experience
working with and through people
chance -- and risk
-- at work
and much more
Insights
From the Book
"In this book, I
attempt to pass along life-lessons I learned from working at the asphalt plant.
If you remember little else from this book, I hope it will be the following chief
lessons:
1. One can learn something anywhere. 2. One can
learn something from anyone.
"I hope these remain true
for me, for the remainder of my life, and I hope you can apply them as well."
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