Project management in extreme situations: lessons from polar expeditions, military and rescue operations, and wilderness explorations / edited by Monique Aubry, Pascal Lièvre

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Blowing Hot and Cold on Project Management Christophe N. BredilletA Polar Expedition Project and Project Management Gilles Garel and Pascal Lievre Ambidexterity as a Project Leader Competency: A Comparative Case Study of Two Polar Expeditions Monique Aubry and Pascal Lievre Mobilization and Sensibility on Polar Expeditions: More than Mere Motivation Michel Recipe, Pascal Lievre, and Geraldine Rix-Lievre Mobilizing Social Networks beyond Project Team Boundaries: The Case of Polar Expeditions Marc Lecoultre and Pascal Lievre A Methodology for Investigating the "Actual" Course of a Project: The Case of a Polar Expedition Geraldine Rix-Lievre and Pascal Lievre A Traditional Cree Expedition on the Ancestral Lands of the Neeposh Family of Northern Quebec Nathalie Guerard and Anne-Marie Cabana Borrowing Concepts from Expedition Travel to Stimulate Alternative Tourism Alain A. Grenier The Project Front End: Financial Guidance Based on Risk Frederic Gautier Lessons Learned from Sports Climbing: Some Disrespectful Discourse on Project Planning Valerie Lehmann Managing Extreme Situations in Fire and Rescue Organizations: The Complexity in Implementing Feedback Anais Gautier Coordination Practices in Extreme Situations: Lessons from the Military Cecile God Developing Collective Competence in Extreme Project Teams: The French Special Forces Case Tessa Melkonian and Thierry Picq Situated Teams: Dropping Tools on Mount Everest Markus Hallgren Planning Risk and Cool Heads: Survival Conditions Required for Managing Projects Jean Martel Flexibility and Rigidity in Planning a Program: The Case of the Montreal Metro Renovation Project David Brazeau Project Manager: Specialist or Generalist?Benoit Lalonde and Maude Brunet Project Management and the Unknown Jean-Pierre Polonovski Control and Flexibility: Which Balance Do We Mean?Danielle Desbiens Conclusion Gilles Garel Epilog Pascal Lièvre Afterword: Looking for the Ordinary in the Extraordinary!Linda Rouleau