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Ready, Set, Succeed! is your guide to curing project paralysis™

Project paralysis™ is an immobilizing condition that happens when you have so many projects, you don’t know which one to start first - so you don’t start any of them.

Or maybe your project paralysis™ is different – it’s causing your important strategic business projects to continually get derailed by urgent day-to-day business emergencies.

While you're doing business as usual, your competition is plotting to steal your customers...

by inventing new ways to give your customers what they want with a new generation of products and services.
by finding new ways to deliver products and services faster
and more efficiently.

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Are you going to let that happen?

If your business isn't evolving, growing, and adapting to changing customer demands and new business trends, you're falling behind just by doing nothing. Are you thinking about:

Adding a new product or service
Introducing an innovative channel to deliver existing products or services
Expanding your service offerings nationwide
Franchising your business concept
Moving to a new business location
Renovating your restaurant or retail store
Automating business practices with computers?

To be successful, you'll need a simple, flexible road map for navigating your business through the complexities of a project – from inception to successful conclusion. With Ready, Set, Succeed! you’ll learn how to:

Juggle projects and business as usual
Select the right project using a simple evaluation tool
Tackle resistors, naysayers, and skeptics
Manage the scope, schedule, risks, and costs
Overcome stumbling blocks during the project
Train your company to adopt the project mindset and do more projects

Ready, Set, Succeed! tells you what really happens during a project, along with tools and techniques to overcome obstacles so the project doesn't derail.

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You'll learn more about the following project rules and how to account for them in your project:

Linda’s Rule of Inevitable Project Complexity

Things are never easier than you originally thought.

The 90/90 Rule of Project Schedules

The first 90% of the tasks take 90% of the time.
The last 10% take the other 90%.

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Along with the tools for making your projects successful, Linda provides real-life tips from her experience:

Your project schedule won’t be perfect until you actually finish the project, at which time it’s called history!
Look out for the tendency some people have to report they are on schedule to complete a task right up to the time the task is due, and then tell you they’re three weeks late.

Ready, Set, Succeed! Table of Contents

Learn both the basics and the secrets of the professionals.
For instance:

Bad assumption for estimating the time it takes to accomplish a goal:

It takes nine months for one woman to have a baby. It doesn’t follow that you can make a baby in one month if you get nine women working on it.

How to Manage Your Projects So They Don't Manage You!
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How to Manage Projects So They Don't Manage You!
Learning the Skills for Effective Project Management

A 45 minute CD featuring an interview with Linda Schumacher. Linda covers how to identify, manage, and track a project with a step-by-step plan so you are effective and don't experience project paralysis™. Learn the skills necessary to successfully manage a project and how to apply these skills to your business.

For many of us in business for ourselves, having the skills to manage a project - whether it's creating a mailing list, developing a website, or implementing an advertising campaign - can make all the difference in our success. Not knowing how to get organized to apply these skills can keep many small businesses from moving forward at a steady pace.

On this CD you learn how to conquer what Linda calls project paralysis™, once and for all. You get the painless shortcut to curing your project paralysis™ along with the skills to launch a project you may have been putting off. Overcoming project paralysis™ could make a big difference to the succes of your business.

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"I just listened to your CD [How to Manage Your Projects...] earlier this week. After hearing the CD, I knew I had to buy your book. Not only because I think it will help me to manage my own projects. But also because I think the material would be a great addition to a course I teach on Product Management.

On your CD, you outlined such a clear, logical process for managing projects to completion. As a small business owner, I feel completely overwhelmed most of the time with all there is to do. Who has the time to tackle the special projects that will enhance the business when you're all caught up in the day-to-day operational details? Not only do you help to separate the projects from the "business as usual," you also offer great tips for choosing which projects to start first.

I constantly coach my clients to have a marketing plan and a strategy. So, it makes perfect sense to me to have a plan and strategy for approaching other projects, as well.

I can't wait to crack the cover of the book and get more details on how to take on my projects. And I am much less fearful about them now that I have your book along to guide me!"

Cathy Brennan, Owner
A Cappella Marketing

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