[ATTW-L] Congratulations Ben Lauren on his new book

[Carly Finseth]

Congratulations, Ben!

Amen to this: "...TPC professionals and/or students are put into group
development teams and told to collaborate without any real guidance." This
is so, sadly, true. I look forward to reading your book and learning some
approaches for doing things differently.

Carly

*Carly Finseth, Ph.D.
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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Tharon Howard <tharon at clemson.edu> wrote:

> Dear ATTW Colleagues,
>
>
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> Please join me in congratulating ATTTW member Ben Lauren on the
> publication of his new book *Communicating Project Management: A
> Participatory Rhetoric for Development Teams* which was just released
> this past week.  Ben’s book is part of the ATTW Series in Technical and
> Professional Communication published by Routledge.  It’s available from
> Routledge at https://www.routledge.com/Communicating-Project-
> Management-A-Participatory-Rhetoric-for-Development/
> Lauren/p/book/9781138046429 as well as Amazon.
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> Ben’s book provides TPC students and practitioners with a deep dive into
> the strategies and practices which working professionals use to cultivate
> and maintain lines of communication between team members regardless of
> whether they are using LEAN, Agile, Six Sigma, or some other project
> management model. Ben’s book is a useful antidote to those all-too-common
> situations where TPC professionals and/or students are put into group
> development teams and told to collaborate without any real guidance.
> Through his empirical studies of teams in workplace environments, Lauren
> helps us under the skills and strategies needed to create functional teams.
> More importantly, by specifically focusing on *participation*, Lauren
> uncouples the role of the project manager from the traditional focus on
> forcing “collaboration” in teams and, instead, positions the work of
> development team members as a shared activity.
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>
>
> Please join me in congratulating Ben!
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>
>
> Tharon Howard,
>
> Editor, ATTW Book Series in
>
> Technical and Professional Communication
>
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