Bøker av Bob Hughes

This book provides case studies written by practitioners from four organizations serving diverse adult learners in equitable, inclusive, and just ways. It will appeal to academics in adult education, social justice education, qualitative research methods, and organizational development.

No Cape Required sets out a vision for a new approach to leadership and emphasizes the need to develop both the individual and the organizational environment within which people are expected to lead and succeed.This book illumines the path toward taking charge of leadership development and influencing the organization to be well prepared for the abundant leadership revolution. Readers will learn how costly the dominant hero-leader paradigm is and why it's vital, in today's "e;VUCA World"e; of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, to develop a new and more relevant approach to leadership and leadership development.This book offers managers insight into the behaviors and skills needed to deliver, along with the engaging styles available to build more successful teams and experience better relationships with colleagues. This book addresses equality through its message of abundant leadership; not emphasizing one group over another, but pointing out the need to unlock the talents and potential of everyone in the organization.

Ideal for IT practitioners with project management responsibility, this book explains the principles of IT-related project management, covering key areas such as project planning, monitoring and control, change and risk management and communication between project stakeholders. This edition introduces the latest thinking, terminology and standards.

Software project management is a crucial element in successful software and IT development, and requires students to develop an understanding of technical methodology and an appreciation of the many human factors that can play a part in software projects. This title helps students to grasp these contrasting skills.