Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You

I found the book to have many helpful suggestions regarding how to manage a project in the absence of or without resorting to authority. Having participated in a project that ran for several years and for which the project manager had no authority (and was not allowed any dedicated staff), I could readily see how applying the teachings in this book could help a project manager succeed. Not being a project manager myself (and having no aspirations to such), I perceive this book to be more useful to those new to project management. Those who are already experienced, successful project managers will probably already have discovered many of the tools offered in this book or come up with their own solutions.

Treats the subject of influence in a management environment as no more than a pure negotiations process and a quid pro quo collaboration. There are many more ways of influencing people than horse trading.

I never sought a career track as a PM but have found myself here anyway (long story), this book should be the defacto go to guide to learning some of the methodologies and challenges you will encounter. Bonus note: Written for humans to read instead of a cut and dry by the book guide.A+ go get it.

I have acted as a project manager on several occasions and mostly got by with some organisational skills. In my current position I have to manage projects with people who do not report to me and this book was filled with great ideas to move a project forward.I would recommend this book for anyone who has been pushed into a project manager role.

Excellent book.

Results Without Authority showed me invaluable advice on how to make things work despite the handicap. It feels as if this book knows my exact situation and already has a solution for the problems that I am currently undergoing and will be experiencing. In an organization where their operations processes change in an unbelievably frequent fashion, a book like this will give insights that one might need to make things work despite the lack of direct authority.

For people like Me who often find themselves having to 'pull together' Project Teams on short notice,this Book is succint & very applicable to 'Managing without Authority'.I can strongly reccomend this Book for anyone interested in 'Effective Project Management'.

If you want to be succesful in your project, you should manage your project team very well. But how can you manage or motivate or control a project team while there is no direct connection with you?That is the answer of this most important question: Results Without Authority.If you have legimate power over your team, it is very easy to manage or control your team. The hard one is managing a team WITHOUT any legimate power.You can find lots of practical and real world ideas and examples in this book.One of the best book I have ever read.Excellent job, thank you! It deserves every penny you paid.

I found the book really insightful and it helped me to realise I have a lot of tools and techniques to influence at my fingertips and in fact I use many of these daily, I just hadn't realised. Having this new insight will mean I now have the opportunity to use these tools and techniques more effectively. Some repetition throughout but we'll worth reading.

this booked helped me a lot in my new role. Would recommend to new project manager's and old. lots of tips and tricks and motivating ideas.

Interesting but nothing mentionned in this cannot be find in another project management book.

Great book. I use the principles learned in my job every day now. Some of the chapters are a bit too long for simple topics, but overall I liked it.

Pour ceux qui lisent l'anglais, ce livre constitue une bonne introduction au management transverse et à l'affirmation en dehors des liens hiérarchique.Parfait pour les managers transverses, les chefs de projets etc...