Project Management Starts with Laying Good Ground Rules

Get project management advice from real-world practitioners. Learn how to manage projects with clarity of purpose and creative freedom.

Great management is a delicate balance. You’re responsible for setting and achieving certain goals, but the ways of getting there are as unpredictable as humans themselves. Your job is to create a structure within which your team members can collaborate, create, and stay collectively on track as you work together to build a whole greater than the sum of its parts. This involves careful planning, deliberate dialogue, honest self-assessment, and many other practices. In this course, get project management advice from real-world practitioners, including actor and director Stanley Tucci and Chief Rob Roy, an award-winning veteran of the US Navy. Learn how to balance vision and improvisation and manage complex projects with clarity of purpose and creative freedom.This course includes videos from:Stanley Tucci, actor, director, and film producerCarson Tate, consultant, author (Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style)Tim Sanders, author, speaker, and former Yahoo! executiveChief Rob Roy, former Navy SEALScott Parazynski, physician and former NASA astronautNote: This course was produced by Big Think. We are pleased to host this content in our library.

1. Project Management Starts with Laying Good Ground Rules

• Lessons from Stanley Tucci: A director's guide to project management
• Carson Tate: Start a meeting revolution
• Tim Sander's ground rules for highly effective meetings
• Rob Roy on getting from point A to point B in seven steps
• Astronaut Scott Prazynski: Get to mission success