Deadline!

How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time

Dan Carrison

254 pages, parution le 16/12/2002

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Résumé

Adventure stories for today's fast-paced business environment!
In the world of business, every second counts...and some seconds count more than others. Executives never know when a critical time challenge is going to rear its ugly head, and knowing exactly how to handle it is the only thing that stands between success and failure. Here, based on the author's personal on-site interviews and observations, are the stories of prestigious organizations in a wide variety of industries successfully facing seemingly impossible deadlines.
• Broncos Stadium looked like a time management nightmare...until Turner Construction brought it in below budget and ahead of schedule
• Every shipping company turned down a unique challenge from Technicolor except for Airborne Express...which now "owns" the film distribution market
• Tropical storm Allison devastated the area around Conoco's Houston headquarters, overwhelming the local authorities...but not Conoco employees
• Boeing's 777, an FBI kidnapping case, the 2001 Odyssey Orbiter on a mission to Mars—how their teams made the impossible happen
Revealing (and quantifying) indispensable lessons in managing projects, the book shows how readers can overcome their own extraordinary challenges to beat the clock and achieve exhilarating success.

Contents

Introduction: Making the Impossible Happen
Chapter 1 Turner Construction Company Makes the Rocky Mountains Thunder: Delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium ahead of time and under budget
Chapter 2 Airborne Express Accepts the Technicolor Challenge: Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and FedEx had backed away
Chapter 3 Mission to Mars--The 2001 Odyssey Orbiter: Successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science"
Chapter 4 The Ultimate Deadline--How the FBI Manages a Kidnapping: Agents rush to meet a literal "drop-dead" deadline
Chapter 5 Boeing's Race to Deliver the 777 Wide-Body: A plane and a management philosophy for the twenty-first century
Chapter 6 Conoco's Weekend of Caring: Volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool
Conclusion: Recurring Themes of Deadline Management

L'auteur - Dan Carrison

Dan Carrison (Santa Clarita, CA) is coauthor of the bestselling Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way (0-8144-0413-8). He is a former columnist with the New York Times syndicate and is a frequent speaker for business audiences.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Amacom
Auteur(s)	Dan Carrison
Parution	16/12/2002
Nb. de pages	254
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	515g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780814407264
ISBN13	978-0-8144-0726-4