Think Strategically and Make Your Ideas a Reality
What you'll learn
- Increase your strategic thinking ability – and make it a habit
- Improve and increase the speed of your decision making
- Discover how to be more agile and fit for today’s fast changing environment
- Learn how to look at projects – personal, professional – through a simple framework
- Increase the likelihood of success of your projects, both personal and professional
- Learn about the massive disruption that is impacting organizations and individuals
Requirements
- Absolutely no experience is required
- Strong willingness to learn and experiment
- A desire to maximize your potential in work and life
- Eager to move from comfort zone to develop critical leadership skills
Description
Description
From our personal to our professional lives, corporations to governments, individuals to nations, projects are the new reality. Welcome to the Project Revolution!
The emergence of projects as the economic engine of our times is silent but incredibly disruptive and powerful.
Projects are timeless and universal. The construction of the pyramids in Egypt, the development of modern cities, the Marshall Plan, the Apollo space programme, the creation of the European Union – all these achievements were the result of ideas being turned into reality through projects. Project-based work is the engine that generates the major accomplishments of our civilization; it has stimulated society to advance and often go beyond long-established scientific and cultural limits.
Projects change the world. Projects make impossible dreams possible.
The behavioural and social sciences endorse the idea that there are a few ways of working and collaborating that are particularly motivating and inspiring for people working on a project. These are that a project should have ambitious goals, a higher purpose and a clear deadline. You have probably noticed that what people tend to remember most clearly from their entire careers is the projects they work on – often the successful ones, but also the failed ones.
According to recent research, the number of individuals working in project-based roles will increase from 66 million (in 2017) to 88 million (forecast 2027). And the value of economic activity worldwide that is project oriented will grow from $12 trillion (in 2013) to $20 trillion (forecast 2027). Those are millions of projects requiring millions of project managers per year.
My prediction is that by 2025, regardless of the industry or sector, senior leaders and managers will spend at least 60% of their time selecting, prioritizing and driving the execution of projects. We will all become project leaders – despite never having been trained to be so!
Here are some of the areas we will cover in my course:
Understand how the project revolution is dramatically impacting the way organizations sell their products.
Learn how Philips and Nike will change the way the bring their products to market.
Explore a framework that can be used by anyone to succeed in projects and turn ideas into reality.
Learn how strategic thinking is what differentiates great leaders from good leaders.
Overview of some of the most relevant strategy concepts and definitions of project management.
Learn the most frequent challenges you may face when trying to think strategically.
Explore the most agile organizations that are faster to market, implement strategic thinking and good decision making.
Learn how to close a project, how to bring the project to an end and how to ensure that the benefits are captured.
And much more!
Who this course is for:
- Curious individuals in for- and non-profit organizations who want to increase their strategic contribution and grow the success of their projects
- Entrepreneurs looking for a simple approach to better their start-up projects success
- Project Managers, Engineers, Strategic thinkers who desire to be a great leader!
- Finally, this course is also appropriate for people working in any industry who want to progress in their careers
Instructor
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is described by Harvard Business Review's Adi Ignatius as "the father of modern project management." He is widely regarded as the world's leading authority on project management and organizational transformation — the thinker who has done more than anyone to move projects from an operational afterthought to the heart of how organizations lead change and create value.
With 35 contributions to Harvard Business Review — more than any other author on the subject — and twice recognized on the Thinkers50 ranking of the world's most influential management thinkers (the first Spaniard to be honored), Antonio has shaped how a generation of leaders deliver strategy and change.
He is the author of Powered by Projects: Leading Your Organization in the Transformation Age (Harvard Business Review Press, 2026) and The HBR Project Management Handbook (2021), as well as The Focused Organization (2012), The Project Revolution (2019), and Lead Successful Projects (Penguin, 2019). He is the creator of the Project Canvas and co-founder of the Brightline Initiative and the Strategy Implementation Institute.
A Fellow and former Chairman of the Project Management Institute (PMI) — the first Spaniard to chair it — Antonio is Vice President of the Association for Project Management (APM). As founder of Projects & Co, he has advised more than 80 organizations — including GSK, BNP Paribas, Nestlé, Google, L'Oréal, Roche, Repsol, and Moody's, as well as public initiatives such as Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 — and trained over 10,000 leaders worldwide. He has delivered more than 600 keynotes and teaches at leading business schools including Hult, Duke CE, IE, Solvay, Vlerick, and Skolkovo. He is a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches.
Born in Madrid and educated in Germany, Mexico, Italy, and the United States, Antonio holds an MBA from London Business School and completed INSEAD's International Directors Program. He speaks five languages. Through his courses here and his LinkedIn newsletter "Lead Projects Successfully," he helps professionals everywhere turn ideas into results — because, as he puts it, a vision without execution is just a hallucination.