This new book by Kepner-Tregoe's Longman and Mullins presents the tools, steps, and processes of project management and the critical thinking that is vital to project management excellence. The book guides readers through the core activities of project management–planning, solving problems, making decisions, and assessing risk. It positions projects within an organization’s "performance environment" and provides overarching insights into processes and practices for effective management.

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Project Management: A Key Tool for Implementing Strategy: Way back in the dark ages, let’s say from the 1960s to the mid ‘90s, strategy was promoted as big-picture thinking: the “vision thing,” in George Bush, Sr.’s words. But as organizations did away with strategic planning departments and put the onus for strategy on line management, and as frustration mounted with “visioning” exercises that wound up in desk drawers, the interest in strategy has moved to the question: How can we get strategy to drive operations? The feeling now is that big-picture is important, but it will remain just a vision unless it is implemented.

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