Leading Extreme Projects: Strategy, Risk and Resilience in Practice

Leading Extreme Projects explores the challenges, obstacles and techniques associated with running large projects in some of the most challenging environments and economies in the world. From an oil and gas program in the Amazon with a background of drug trafficking, delicate indigenous communities and some of the most challenging logistics; to a power project in Thailand involving a consortium of the state and private contractors plus a global supply chain; to a shipping efficiency project involving two joint venture programs with stakeholders from the European, North and South American and Asian continents. Alexandro Arroyo and Thomas Grisham cover the strategic challenges which are common to these projects; including cultural, social, political and security risks; fraud and corruption; extreme climate or geography, complex and fragile supply chains. The authors’ insights and advice will help you understand the global context of leadership in these extreme projects; the nature of the structures and teams required to create, design, operate and transfer global capital programs. In particular, they provide perspectives on the issues of leading cross-cultural teams, working amongst sensitive indigenous people and transferring knowledge to build local capacity. The 19 or so case examples that are interwoven through the text include many of the most challenging transport, infrastructure, oil and gas and mineral extraction projects from the four corners of the world. This is an important reference text for senior executives involved in both the strategy and the delivery side of extreme projects, as well as for those researching and studying the field.