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Deadline! [electronic resource] : how premier organizations win the race against time / Dan Carrison.

By: Carrison, Dan.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : American Management Association, c2003Description: x, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Time management -- United States -- Case studies | Deadlines -- United States -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 658.4/04 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Turner Construction Company makes the Rocky Mountains thunder : delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium, ahead of time and under budget -- Airborne Express and the technicolor challenge : Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and Fedex had backed away -- Mission to Mars--the 2001 Odyssey orbiter : successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science" -- The ultimate deadline--how the FBI manages a kidnapping : agents rush to meet a literal "drop dead" deadline -- Boeing's race to deliver the 777 Wide-Body : a plane, and a management philosophy, for the twenty-first century -- Conoco's weekend of caring : volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool.

Includes index.

Turner Construction Company makes the Rocky Mountains thunder : delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium, ahead of time and under budget -- Airborne Express and the technicolor challenge : Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and Fedex had backed away -- Mission to Mars--the 2001 Odyssey orbiter : successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science" -- The ultimate deadline--how the FBI manages a kidnapping : agents rush to meet a literal "drop dead" deadline -- Boeing's race to deliver the 777 Wide-Body : a plane, and a management philosophy, for the twenty-first century -- Conoco's weekend of caring : volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.