Warren Hollings' Stand and Deliver is destined to become the modern project manager's go-to text for strategy, planning and harnessing the power of teamwork to achieve outstanding results. In engaging style, he lays bare the fundamental attributes demanded of a project leader and illustrates these against back-stories of real project trials and successes. In doing so he challenges current project management approaches and points to their contribution to declining industry time, cost and delivery performances. Embedded in his writings are the hard lessons of a 40-year career as a project director on New Zealand's largest, toughest and most demanding construction projects. He maintains that in the rush to adopt modern techniques and processes the hard lessons of the past have been overlooked, and worse, forgotten at considerable cost. Hollings is this country's most awarded construction project director and his achievements and those of the teams he led are reflected in Auckland's modern-day city skyline - from high-rise tower blocks to the new Auckland City Hospital and dominated by Sky Tower. He led the team that built and delivered Auckland's Sky City Casino and the landmark Sky Tower in unprecedented time and in absolute contradiction to industry thinking at the time that it simply couldn't be done against regulatory-imposed time constraints. Success here in compacting an otherwise three and a half year building programme into less than two years came down, he maintains, to challenging conventional methodology, then innovating, developing breakthrough strategies and fostering a teamwork approach that allowed production levels to soar. As a consultant, he now shares

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