Bücher von Peter Taylor

Matching the speed of change in modern business, this book takes readers on a 2-year journey in building a project management office (PMO) for today and tomorrow, and redefines the PMO as what it should focus on: projects, methods and outcomes.Many organisations invest heavily in PMOs, but these are built on an outdated and static model that does not fit a hybrid, agile, AI-empowered and rapidly changing business environment. Building on his renowned 'balanced PMO' model, project management leader Peter Taylor tackles today's challenges with this diary-style guide to inspire all PMO leaders, project managers and business leaders, and provide a roadmap to follow to build (or rebuild) their own PMOs. He presents a completely new definition of 'PMO', eliminating the traditional back-office concept of a centralized PMO, with his 'Projects: Methods: Outcomes' construct that provides a truly business-focused team to oversee the delivery of value to their organization.Enriched with case studies and practical models, this book will benefit all PMO leaders, project management professionals, change and transformation leaders and anyone interested in how to deliver business value through projects.

Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of the short story form," Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urbanized South. Ranging in subject from the story of the exposure of a respected doctor's infidelity by the family's longtime cook to the tale of elderly siblings whose party for young people exposes the town's class divisions, the stories often explore family dynamics within the larger society of the South.

In 1916, a young boy, Nathan Longfort, is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of "irregular kinship," the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life-as Nathan's mother's first true love, a charmer of European society, a Don Juan, a worldly success-and sees it in stinging contrast to his own unfulfilled dreams of becoming an artist. Much later in life, the two men-now old-will meet again.

Unless we make drastic changes, the climate damage that we are causing by living in cities will result in terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption towards making cities spaces for activism.

This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu's development into a global city.

Its re-publication makes this classic piece of spatial (political) science available to contemporary audiences, for whom it is as relevant as when the book first appeared in 1979.

Ten stories by important modern authors, specially selected for advanced students of English.

After years of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. This book offers an agenda for managing the wildlands in Britain and for expanding and connecting such lands.