Deadline! presents adventure stories for today's warp-speed business environment - dramatic case studies of how nine well-known organizations successfully managed to meet critical, seemingly impossible, time challenges. More than just compelling reading of these suspenseful, often harrowing situations, each chapter reveals practical deadline management techniques that can be applied to almost any time-sensitive project.
Table of Contents:
"Preface [vii] Introduction: Making the Impossible Happen [ix] Chapter One: Turner Construction Company Makes the Rocky Mountains Thunder Delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium ahead of time and under budget. Chapter Two: Airborne Express Accepts the Technicolor Challenge Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and FedEx had backed away. Chapter Three: Mission to Mars: The 2001 Odyssey Orbiter Successful deadline management doesn't have to be rocket science. Chapter Four: The Ultimate Deadline: How the FBI Manages a Kidnapping Agents rush to meet a literal "drop-dead" deadline. Chapter Five: Boeing's Race to Deliver the 777 Wide Body A plane and a management philosophy for the twenty-first century. Chapter Six: Conoco's Weekend of Caring Volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool. Conclusion: Recurring Themes of Deadline Management"
About the Author :
Dan Carrison (Los Angeles, CA) is coauthor of the bestselling Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way(0-8144-0413-8). He is a former columnist with the New York Times syndicate and is a frequent speaker for business audiences.
Review :
"Dan Carrison's Deadline! How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time (Amacom) is fascinating stuff, full of practical yet visionary information on how to meet time commitments and still maintain your sanity. This isn't just fluffy garbage like 'develop good time management skills.' Carrison offers very specific advice, all drawn from case studies that he has intricately researched."
---New Architect
"Despite the book's 2003 copyright, it's clear the author made his manuscript deadlines well in advance... a must-check-out if your job entails being suddenly saddled with time-consuming challenges without sufficient time to rise to them... extremely visual writer who can show everything he talks about to the satisfaction of even a sophisticated reader's eye "
--Journal of Business Strategy
"Six powerful tales of workers meeting deadlines that may ignite even the most sluggish employees to kick their deadline-meeting skills up a notch... adventure/business hybrid...an unusually readable business book."
--Publishers Weekly
"This book should be read by anyone who wants to make things happen vs. let things happen."
--Jim Pawlak, syndicated business book reviewer
"While recounting each tense, thrilling story, Carrison... draws practical business lessons for executives and managers and all others determined to overcome a time-crunch... This is the kind of book that can be both instructional and inspiring."
--MWorld
"Dan Carrison's Deadline! How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time (Amacom) is fascinating stuff, full of practical yet visionary information on how to meet time commitments and still maintain your sanity. This isn't just fluffy garbage like 'develop good time management skills.' Carrison offers very specific advice, all drawn from case studies that he has intricately researched."
---New Architect
"Despite the book's 2003 copyright, it's clear the author made his manuscript deadlines well in advance... a must-check-out if your job entails being suddenly saddled with time-consuming challenges without sufficient time to rise to them... extremely visual writer who can show everything he talks about to the satisfaction of even a sophisticated reader's eye "
--Journal of Business Strategy
"Six powerful tales of workers meeting deadlines that may ignite even the most sluggish employees to kick their deadline-meeting skills up a notch... adventure/business hybrid...an unusually readable business book."
--Publishers Weekly
"This book should be read by anyone who wants to make things happen vs. let things happen."
--Jim Pawlak, syndicated business book reviewer
"While recounting each tense, thrilling story, Carrison... draws practical business lessons for executives and managers and all others determined to overcome a time-crunch... This is the kind of book that can be both instructional and inspiring."
--MWorld
“Dan Carrison’s Deadline! How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time (Amacom) is fascinating stuff, full of practical yet visionary information on how to meet time commitments and still maintain your sanity. This isn’t just fluffy garbage like ‘develop good time management skills.’ Carrison offers very specific advice, all drawn from case studies that he has intricately researched.”
---New Architect
“Despite the book’s 2003 copyright, it’s clear the author made his manuscript deadlines well in advance… a must-check-out if your job entails being suddenly saddled with time-consuming challenges without sufficient time to rise to them… extremely visual writer who can show everything he talks about to the satisfaction of even a sophisticated reader’s eye ”
--Journal of Business Strategy
“Six powerful tales of workers meeting deadlines that may ignite even the most sluggish employees to kick their deadline-meeting skills up a notch… adventure/business hybrid…an unusually readable business book.”
--Publishers Weekly
“This book should be read by anyone who wants to make things happen vs. let things happen.”
--Jim Pawlak, syndicated business book reviewer
“While recounting each tense, thrilling story, Carrison… draws practical business lessons for executives and managers and all others determined to overcome a time-crunch… This is the kind of book that can be both instructional and inspiring.”
--MWorld
"Dan Carrison's Deadline! How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time (Amacom) is fascinating stuff, full of practical yet visionary information on how to meet time commitments and still maintain your sanity. This isn't just fluffy garbage like 'develop good time management skills.' Carrison offers very specific advice, all drawn from case studies that he has intricately researched." ---New Architect
"Despite the book's 2003 copyright, it's clear the author made his manuscript deadlines well in advance... a must-check-out if your job entails being suddenly saddled with time-consuming challenges without sufficient time to rise to them... extremely visual writer who can show everything he talks about to the satisfaction of even a sophisticated reader's eye" --Journal of Business Strategy
"Six powerful tales of workers meeting deadlines that may ignite even the most sluggish employees to kick their deadline-meeting skills up a notch... adventure/business hybrid...an unusually readable business book." --Publishers Weekly
"This book should be read by anyone who wants to make things happen vs. let things happen." --Jim Pawlak, syndicated business book reviewer
"While recounting each tense, thrilling story, Carrison... draws practical business lessons for executives and managers and all others determined to overcome a time-crunch... This is the kind of book that can be both instructional and inspiring." --MWorld
