Paradigm Shift | Project Management Magazine Summer 2021

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BOOK REVIEW

PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY DURING A LONG LOCKDOWN IN MELBOURNE, DYLAN HESSELBERG RECEIVED A WELCOME COPY OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ELEPHANT, ECO-SYSTEM AND EXPERIENCE BY GREG USHER. HERE, DYLAN OFFERS HIS REVIEW OF THE BOOK.

My vax-induced, less than flying start on the book soon turned into a thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding read. Project Management in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know About the Elephant, Eco-System and Experience is as much an adventure and education for the reader as its title is a mouthful. Anybody with a particular 8

interest in the origins of project management as a discipline and what the future could hold for project management as a profession will appreciate the premise of the book. THE ‘PROJECT PEOPLE’ The author uses his book to express, in a most colloquial and light-hearted way, the trials and tribulations inevitably encountered by many, of what I like to call ‘project


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