Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report to You

Acknowledgments

RESULTS WITHOUT AUTHORITY benefits from the hard-earned experience of dozens, if not hundreds, of excellent project leaders and managers who have shared with me so generously of their experiences over the years. In particular, I need to thank Terry Ash, Ron Askeland, Scott Beth, Karel de Bakker, Al DeLucia, Tom Fader, Bob Gudz, Esteri Hinman, Denis Lambert, Nancy McDonald, Revathi Muruvanda Muthanna, Joe Podolsky, Patrick Schmid, Richard Simonds, Arun Swamy, Peter Vogel-Dittrich, J. D. Watson, and Ashok Waran, who provided examples, feedback, and encouragement throughout the process of pulling this book together. I also want to thank my long-suffering spouse, Barbara Kendrick, who repeatedly read and reread the text of this book, ...