Rick A. Morris’s Stop Playing Games!
A Project Manager’s Guide to Successfully Navigating Organizational Politics

This book takes a completely different look at project management by using games like “Grapevine”, “The Pricing Game” and “Guess the Truth” to help and illustrate readers overcome organizational politics on projects.

The book dives deep into the topics of gaining buy-in from upper management, accurately estimating cost and time, managing within corporate culture, controlling project management, taking care of your team and more. This is the kind of book for Project Managers that works!

Challenges and issues covered in this book include:

• Presenting management with realistic options
• Getting your point across without confrontation
• Controlling the message and the communication channels
• Utilizing honesty and trust as a project management tool
• Knowing what is under your control, and what is not
• Overcoming poor project management conditions
• Making real change happen without taking things personally!