Thinking on Purpose for Project Managers: Outsmarting Evolution

by Bill Richardson

When you're facing down a lion on the open savannah, automatic reactions hardwired into your system through eons of evolution can save your life. However, when you're trying to impress the CEO across a boardroom table, those same responses can cost you big time. So, how do you overcome your automatic reactions, retrain your brain, and outsmart evolution? By learning and using the techniques revealed in Thinking on Purpose for Project Managers: Outsmarting Evolution. This book will teach you: * How evolution has hardwired your brain to think on autopilot, using mindsets you don't know about to make decisions you don't control * How thinking on autopilot affects your performance results and ultimately your professional impact * How to identify and navigate around the "mindfields" of biases, emotions, and habits that cause these problems * The five-step Thinking On Purpose process that can help you take control of your thinking by learning when to "reset" versus "repeat" * A set of tools that can help you structure your thinking for better clarity and creativity * How to transform your team by helping them learn to think on purpose and create the mindset that there is no problem or adversity they cannot solve

340 pages, Paperback

First published May 29, 2008

About the author

Bill Richardson is an internationally renowned Project Manager Coach and Speaker who teaches professionals to discover their true potential and achieve their personal and professional goals. Through his work, he has helped hundreds of individuals, teams, communities and organizations revitalize and re-envision their companies' project management strategies and create streamlined processes that continue to produce consistent, significant gains.

Bill Richardson has over 35 years of experience in Project Management, training and coaching. He is Project Management Professional (PMP) certified, with extensive insider experience leading major technological and change initiatives in the Financial Services industry at a major Canadian bank.

His diverse roles in the banking industry include commercial account management, corporate cash management, sales management and a broad spectrum of program and project management assignments within Global IT. Bill calls upon this background in his international consulting and coaching business, which supports clients in all areas of leadership development, program and project management and executive coaching.