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The Red Pill Executive
ENDORSEMENTS
Simple is hard. Complexity is easy. The Red Pill Executive takes a complicated topic and turns it into a simple and easy read that’s so deep it merits reading again and again. The authors set the bar high and then deliver practical steps coming from their years of experience in the field.
They also fearlessly confront culture. In a previous position, I experienced the power of culture while on a team tasked with making a radical shift toward more accountability. Two years in, we had a cultural snap-back where morale and loyalty fell apart to the point that we had a downturn in customer satisfaction. The book’s case study on this topic felt like someone was a fly on the wall in my office back then. I wish I had read that chapter years ago.
These guys must have watched a movie of the last 10 years of my professional life!
Anyone working with projects should have a copy of The Red Pill Executive on their office shelf. You’ll read about creating successful PM teams, for sure, but you’ll also get insights on safely navigating company culture, and you might even learn how to be more effective yourself.
~Steve Jenkins, Global Program Management Leader, Large Aerospace Company
I love the way that The Red Pill Executive articulates what the seasoned professional intuitively knows about how to navigate culture and the efficacy that carries with it. It provides a framework and gives clarity to something that is felt at a gut level and learned through experience. Their explanation also gave me tools that will help me train my teams to understand culture in a way that makes sense in the day-to-day operations of projects.
“…a marvelous mix of research, experience and storytelling.”
The authors’ use of movies makes it a marvelous mix of research, experience, and storytelling. Weaving the concepts through action movies is a brilliant way to illustrate the paradigm shift in thinking that takes place when we look at culture as a core component of managing change. It also made the read enjoyable as well as practical.
I wish I could say it was a quick read, but I stopped to mark up my copy with notes so frequently that it took me a while to get through it. I sat down to read and ended up captured by the ideas. I’ll return to those notes many, many times. Bottom line, this book made me want to work with the guys at Think!
~Kate Krupey, Technology Executive Advisor, former CIO of KatzAbosch, P.A.
THE
RED PILL
EXECUTIVE
TRANSFORM OPERATIONS AND UNLOCK
THE POTENTIAL OF CORPORATE CULTURE
| TONYGRUEBL | JEFFWELCH | BRYANWOLBERT |
NEW YORK
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The Red Pill Executive
Transform Operations and Unlock the Potential of Corporate Culture
© 2021 Tony Gruebl, Jeff Welch, and Bryan Wolbert
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scaling the Project Management Model
Chapter 1 Why Project Management Fails a Whopping 70% of the Time
Case Study: USVantage: A Company President Walled in by their Operations Culture
