If you are new to management or have been leading teams for years, you probably have been promoted to a position of authority because you already have shown you had the skills to successfully contribute to a project team and learn your company’s project methodology. However, actually leading a project requires a different skill set than merely being a productive worker or passing a management course.

PM 101 provides that handy reference guide. This book is small enough to slip inside your pocket, and yet it distills down a lifetime of successful project management experience into clear actionable items. You may read this book quickly the first time, and then find that you end up consulting it daily as you find yourself caught in the day to day tasks as your experience and responsibilities increase.

It contains tips on managing meetings, developing teams, dealing with changes, managing stakeholders, tips for effective planning, project execution of the projects, most important steps in the project closure and tacking the challenges of organizational politics.

No matter how companies are managed, successful projects tend to rely upon a few actions that can be described in a concise way and handled with common sense. The exact management methodology will not impact a project’s outcome as much as the daily actions of the management team. Sometimes this boils down to common sense, but sometimes success comes from uncommon wisdom.