Peter Taylor (Project Manager)

Peter Taylor PMP is a British project manager and author of The lazy project manager. The book promotes a 'productive laziness' approach to work that builds on the Pareto principle, inferring that only 20 per cent of work effort equates to 80 per cent of results.ref> approach will allow managers a better quality of life. It also draws on the work of Helmuth Moltke in analysing the best type of skills for leadership roles, specifically the combination of laziness and intelligence. He is also a recognised speaker on the subject of project managent, delivering presentations, seminars and training around the world, as well as a contributing journalist for a number of project management magazines and websites.

He is also a broadcaster through iTunes and Jellycast- The Lazy Project Manager podcasts.

He is a founding member of the faculty for Practical Project Management

Works

• The Lazy Project Manager (2009, ISBN 978-1-906821-13-5)
• The Value of Lessons Learned (Projects & Profits ICFAI University Press, India Sept. 2009)
• The PMO - Too Valuable to Lose? (The Guardian, UK 1st Sept 2009)
• The Art of Productive Laziness (Projects & Profits ICFAI University Press, India July 2009)
• The PMO - Burden or Benefit (PM Network PMI, International May 2009)
• A arte da preguiça produtiva (Mundo PM Brazil 2009)
• The Art of Productive Laziness (Industrial Management, USA July/August 2009)

External links

• 1, Project Management Blog
• 2, Podcast/iTunes
• 3, Practical Project Management
• 4, Project Management Blog RSS Feed
• 5, One & Other Experience (The Fourth Plinth)
• 6, The Apprentice
• 7, Coventry Telegraph reporter
• 8, Wordpress
• 9, PM Student
• 10,Articles Base
• 11' Projects@Work
• 12, PM World Today
• 13, Mundo PM Brazil
• 14, PMI Washington DC
• 15, PMI Frankfurt