(AMACOM: New York) -- Author Todd Williams, certified project management professional and accomplished turnaround specialist, shares his field-tested project recovery process with every project manager struggling to avoid—or slog through—a disaster. It is also for, the author stresses, “anyone involved in a project—project manager, customer, project sponsor, executive management, steering committee member, or individual contributor—and trying to find the missing link in managing it.”

Rescue the Problem Project (AMACOM, 2011) leads readers through a step-by-step process of investigation, negotiation, and action. It starts with what Williams calls “step zero,” the prerequisite to success: the realization, particularly on the part of the project manager, that a problem exists and needs solving. After declaring a project “red” and accepting their new role as a recovery manager, project managers will follow four integral steps:

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