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Why is it that my kite won't fly?
by Roberto Rodriguez Esteves   

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The Flying Kite Incorporated

Category:  Business/Investing
Publisher: FriesenPress Canada

Type: Non-Fiction

Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781460264836

Price: $8.99 (eBook)


The Power of Strategic Project Management.

 I have written a book, “Why is it that my kite won’t fly?” that expands on the analogy between flying a kite and managing a project. It provides the reader with multiple strategies to elevate performance at project organizations and assure success at flying kites (executing projects). Ten chapters to cover this complex subject and present concrete strategies to improve effectiveness in execution, while leading to more sustainable project organizations:

Chapter One: A Distinctive Approach to Projects is born

Chapter Two: Why Aren’t the Kites Flying? Project Failure Continues to Rise

Chapter Three: Fundamental Areas of Management to Get Kites to Fly Again

Chapter Four: The Human Factor

Chapter Five: Coping With Change

Chapter Six: If Risks Weren’t There, Life Would Be Boring

Chapter Seven: Quality as an Intrinsic Variable, Naturally Achieved

Chapter Eight: Integrating the Thoughts to Achieve the Desired Results

Chapter Nine: Transcending into a New Project Execution Culture

Chapter Ten: The Quest to Be Inspiring and Extraordinary

This is a book that challenges the traditional practices and theories that don’t seem to lead to successful project execution. The language used is simple and informal, allowing the message to reach even those professionals not necessarily involved in project management and execution, or with little experience in this complex area of the business.

As a reader, you are going to be fascinated by the simplicity of the analyses performed and by the distinctive approach given to the solutions and strategies that follow. 

This book is about people, about leading people, about learning how to be a better project professional.

You will find the book useful and inviting!

 

 



Excerpt

Project Management is, in many ways, like flying a kite.

How do you design and construct it so that it’s lifted high and strong by the wind? What do you do when it gets snagged in a tree, lands on the roof of a house, or is tangled on electrical wire? How do you retrieve it while keeping it intact?

Similar elements come into play when executing a project. Successful delivery may be affected by obstacles such as erroneous engineering, defective equipment, late arrival of materials, personnel turnover, among others. While prior planning does indeed help, it takes a skilled pilot to build, fly, rescue, and bring down the kite safely throughout the course of its journey, just like it takes a skilled Project Manager to successfully deliver his (her) project.

Like flying a kite, effective project management requires technique, experience and skill to finish the project on good terms. With a combination of practical wisdom borne of decades of experience in international engineering and project management, Why Is It That My Kite Won’t Fly? offers a wealth of research and results-based suggestions for optimizing your approach to project management in a wide variety of sectors.



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Reviewed by Samantha Dewitt (Rivera) for Readers' Favorite
Why Is It That My Kite Won’t Fly: The Power of Strategic Project Management by Roberto Rodriguez Esteves is all about making sure that you are the best project manager that you can be. Though anyone can become a project manager, it is essential to understand the skills and processes necessary in order to be a truly great one. It is not an easy thing to do after all. This book explains many of the different concepts that you may come across as a project manager, and what you may experience as you are attempting to fulfill this position.

I liked that this book was written by someone with firsthand experience. Esteves provides some of his own ideas and thoughts on the subject as well as providing some inspirational quotes and charts that make all of the processes much easier to understand. This book is a great choice for someone looking to take that step into project management. They will be able to learn a lot from Why Is It That My Kite Won’t Fly. Though it is a short read, there are a lot of important information and tips included in this book which will help anyone, even if you aren’t actually chosen as project manager. If you’re just working within a professional organization you’ll want to read this book because you’ll actually learn a lot that can be applied to you as well. Breaking down the text with bullet points of important information also helps to make it easy to understand and easy to locate the information you want to come back to for future reference.



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