Antonio Nieto-Rodríguez

“My purpose is to help corporations, governments and organizations excel in their transformation projects and achieve a deeper impact on our society.”

Antonio is known as the world’s leading champion of project management and strategy implementation. Alongside his full-time role at GSK, where he is currently Director of the Sustainability Transformation Program—and previously Director of their global Project Management Office—he is also the former Chair of the Project Management Institute.

Nowdays, he is Director and Professor of IE’s Flagship Program: Strategic Project Management for Executives at IE Business School. Additionally, he is Professor of Project Management & Strategy Implementation at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.

Born in Spain and having lived around the world, he was previously a Senior Executive for Fortis Bank, responsible for their integration with BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO. He received a Global Award from Thinkers50 for Ideas into Practice, and his books include The Focused Organisation and Harvard’s Project Management Handbook.

Most senior leaders have not learned how to manage projects appropriately. Projects are always complex, so it is important to focus on the areas where more impact can be created to generate value for your organization.

Harvard Business Review: Project Management Handbook

(English version)

Harvard Business Review: Manual para la dirección de proyectos

(Spanish version)

The one primer you need to launch, lead, and sponsor successful projects.

We’re now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in all sectors has skyrocketed, and project management skills have become essential for every leader and manager. Still, project failure rates remain extremely high. Why? Leaders oversee too many projects and have too little visibility into them. Project managers struggle to translate their hands-on, technical knowledge up to senior management. The result? Worthy projects are starved of time and resources and fail to deliver benefits, while too much investment goes into the wrong projects. To compete in the project economy, you need to close this gap. The HBR Project Management Handbook shows you how.

In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a new and simple framework that will increase any project’s likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, it will teach you how to manage your organization’s projects, strategic programs, and agile initiatives more effectively and push the best ones ahead to completion. Timeless yet forward-looking, this book will help you win in the project-driven world.

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