Top 14 Books on Change Management (2025 edition)
Learn which 12 change management books made my list of the most important reads. Great suggestions for project managers and those working in organizational change.
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Interested in project management? Elizabeth Harrin is the author of several top-selling, practical guides to how to manage projects published by PMI, APM, Kogan Page and the British Computer Society.
Drawing from her own experience and plenty of case studies, surveys and research, these books are the ‘mentor on the shelf’ you need to get ahead and learn what really works when it comes to juggling your workload.
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Project management books reviewed and the top takeaways shared for you! Learn about the new trends in project management from the best authors.
Best PRINCE2 books for 2025 (including PRINCE2 Agile books)
Whether you are studying for the exam or want to supplement your learning, here are the 7 best PRINCE2 books that I recommend.
15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs
You can read books to earn PDUs and I’ve created a list of 15 of my most recommended project management books to help you do so.
Business Resilience: An Overview
Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! To get the benefits of better business resilience, you need to commit at the most senior levels within the…
Why do stakeholders contribute?
Why do stakeholders take part in projects? You might think that’s an obvious question. After all, your project sponsor is probably the one who wanted this project to happen in the first place, and he or she has a vested interest in making it a success. But aside from the sponsor, all those other stakeholders…
4 ways to proactively manage stakeholders
Instead of taking a wait and see approach, use these 4 methods to proactively manage stakeholders on your projects.
Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Book Review)
If you are new to project management, new to leading project teams – even if you have a lot of other, related business experience in a different field – then this book will be relevant to you.
Build, Excite, Equip: How to Simplify Change Adoption in Your Projects
Build, Excite, Equip: How to Simplify Change Adoption in Your Projects, by Nicola Graham, is a handbook for business change management aimed at project managers. Given that project teams have to incorporate the business change elements to make sure projects land as expected – but often without the support of a dedicated change manager –…
How To Avoid The 4 Sins of Meetings
There are 4 meeting sins that you should definitely avoid. Gerry Lewis’s book Shine discusses what they are and how to avoid them.
What is Stakeholder-led Project Management?
I recently sat down with the book Stakeholder-led Project Management by Louise M. Worsley and wanted to share my thoughts and take-aways from her book.
Top 10 Must-Read Books on Collaboration on Projects
Here’s my must-read books for collaboration on projects with some great pointers on the skills, process and experience of engaging people and working together, whether your job is to lead or to follow. Twelve excellent books to add to your project management bookshelf.
Top challenges for project sponsors
Are you wondering how to build a better relationship with your project sponsor? I spoke to the authors of Strategies for Project Sponsorship, a book about how to sponsor projects, and reading it from a project manager’s perspective is a great way to improve how you interact and engage with your project sponsor. Peter Taylor…