A book for project leaders like you to help you prepare to direct your project, your epic endeavor, from an idea to being real. The IDEAL approach is an elegant mix of how to think and what to do. This will be YOUR notebook to help you achieve YOUR aspirations to be a truly effective project team leader, one who understands that people, not spreadsheets and schedules, accomplish projects.
Like a movie director, you, the project leader, are in charge of how the human dynamics and the project lifecycle play out. The IDEAL approach will help you enable joy for your team and delight your customer while elevating the mindfulness so as to engage excellence in the projectÕs cost, schedule, quality, scope, risk mitigation and supplier relations. Built on sound principles from experts ranging from Deming to Kahnemann, and learned over twenty years by working alongside and studying ideal and not so ideal project leaders, the IDEAL approach is about enabling and engaging, not managing. This is PERSONAL!