General Project Management back to top

PMI's Web Site. Check into their page on PMP Certification.

The best resource around for preparing to take the PMP exam.

Invaluable online PM resource with articles and tools to download.
Specialty is IT, but applicable to all industries.

Excellent reference site where topics such as Portfolio Managment, Project Management, and Governance are discussed. But I may be biased, being a co-founder.

Stay up on the latest with MS/Project.

For MS/Project users, join MPUG to get useful tips and techniques.
Great newsletter.

Great site for FAQs and sample code.

Home of Woody's Project Watch.
Invaluable newsletter for MS/Project users.

Primavera's home page. Sign up for their Prima pass to have access to valuable white papers and their free quarterly magazine (even if you're not a Primavera customer). Top-notch products for Enterprise Project Management.

Excellent online resource for free articles and white papers.

Check out the Rational Unified Process, an excellent methodology for iterative software development.

C/S Solutions, Inc.
(creators of Risk+)

Mainly notable for Risk+ (an MS/Project add-on used by many leading organizations), but lists other products as well.

Baseline: The Project Management Center

Good resource for Project Management articles.

NASA APPL
(Academy of Program
and Project Leadership)

Despite recent criticisms, still a best practice example for how to establish a thriving project management community. Great articles and free resources.

NASA Lessons
Learned Site

Best practice example for sharing lessons learned.
Can enter keywords to search for lessons.

The Official PRINCE2 Site

Sponsored by the UK government PRINCE (Projects in Controlled Environments), which evolved into PRINCE2, is an internationally
recognized methodology for project and program management.

OGC Home Page (UK's Office
of Government Commerce)

Check out their Centers of Excellence page and their
Successful Delivery Toolkit.

4PM.com

Excellent Project Management Knowledge Base.
Many useful articles and tools as well.

TheManager.org - Project Management Portal

Excellent directory to some very intriguing project management topics. A project manager could spend all day on this site.

ProjectMagazine

An online magazine for project managers with useful articles,
links and templates. The Links section alone is worth the visit.

Builder.com

Mainly worthwhile for its Project Blueprint eNewsletter, which contains excellent articles related to project management. Also, check out their Project Management section under the Manage tab for more project management articles.

General Leadership back to top

Official Tom Peters Site

Some valuable presentations and other resources from the author
of In Search of Excellence. Good discussion forum for leaders.

American Management Association

AMA's home page - loads of excellent management and leadership classes, research results, and AMA's bookstore.

Wally Bock - The Digital
Age Storyteller

A wealth of fascinating articles on leadership - with an
entertaining spin.

FranklinCovey's
Knowledge Expo

Some useful articles, mostly from Stephen Covey, author
of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Leader-to-Leader Institute (formerly the Peter Drucker Foundation)

Leadership articles by the world's foremost authorities.
Focused on the social (non-profit) sector, but useful to all.

Leader Values

Excellent site for global leadership resources and articles.

Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management

Great section on Organizational Structure and Design. Access to the Wharton Leadership Digest. Some thought-provoking articles.

Organizational Project Management back to top

PortfolioKnowledge.com

Sponsored by Pacific Edge Software, but not a sales site. A wealth
of valuable articles on Portfolio Management. Simply the best free resource around if starting a PMO.

Kintana

Although primarily a site to sell Kintana's products, the Portfolio Management white papers are extremely useful. Focus is on IT.

Project Arena

Another sales site, but useful white papers in the Solutions section.

Planview

Strictly a sales site for Planview's Portfolio Management product, but it's listed here for those researching PMO tools.

The Programme Management Web Site

From the UK. One of the best sites around on program management.
Great Articles section.

Organizational Development back to top

Being First, Inc.

From the authors of Beyond Change Management and The Change
Leader's Roadmap. Excellent collection of free articles and tools.

John P. Kotter's The Heart
of Change site

Another great change management site. Check out the 8 Steps of Change (hint: click on each step for more detail). Many other useful resources, including change stories and tools (including a free, instant, online valuation of your change initiative).

Harvard University's Change Leadership Group

The site addresses change in the school system, but many lessons are applicable to change in general.

Excellent portal to useful books and links on change leadership.
Click on Explore, and select the topic of your choice. The OD Links
alone are worth the visit.

Contains everything you wanted to know about Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard approach. Contains a great background on the approach, as well as valuable resources.

Marketing back to top

American Marketing Association

Tools, Templates, Articles, Best Practices. Everything you need for marketing anything, from the world's leading marketing association.

The Chasm Group

Official site of Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm. A wealth of valuable articles on high-tech marketing (although applicable to niche marketing in general).

Market Wise, Inc. (eNewsletters)

Want to start an eNewsletter for your project, but don't have time to maintain one? Market Wise will design, create, and distribute your newsletter electronically, per your requirements.

Guerrilla Marketing

Some great articles on marketing and PR. Check out the free, brief,
daily communiques online, or have them emailed to you.

Direct Marketing Association

Invaluable resource for Direct Marketing articles, white papers,
and books.

Communication back to top

Official Edward Tufte Site

From the leading guru on information presentation. Check out
ET's Writings, and the Ask ET Forum. This is where the thought leadership is if you want to present information in a clear, concise manner, whether speaking, building a website, or presenting data
to management.

eProject

An excellent web-based product for managing projects that span organizational boundaries. Share documents, issues lists, schedules, discussions, etc.

Webex

Need to collaborate with people external to your organization or department? Webex is the tool. Host meetings, share documents or
your desktop, or chat. The virtual world has arrived.

Zoomerang

The best tool - period - for surveys or training. Captures responses,
provide charts, and allows you to download to Excel. Limited use is free, but even unlimited use is inexpensive. It just doesn't pay to develop a survey or quiz in-house.

Acteva

Need to plan and manage an event (maybe to advertise your project)? Acteva does it for you, including scheduling, registration, and payment. Also includes useful e-marketing tools. Best of all, there's no up front cost. Acteva retains a small percentage based on ticket price. For free events, Acteva doesn't even charge!

Babel Fish Translation

Managing international or cross-cultural projects? Add this free language translation tool to your site.

ExecutivePlanet.com

Another great tool for managers of international or cross-cultural projects. Business Culture profiles of major countries. Great discussion board on international travel and culture as well.
Add this free tool to your website.

Toastmasters International

Any project manager or leader needs to be able to present effectively. Join Toastmasters to gain valuable speaking tips and get the experience necessary to get over your speaking fears. Even if you don't join, there is a great online store here with books on speaking. Check out the free online guide: 10 Tips for Successful Public Speaking.

Screen Catcher
(St. Clair Software)

Need to share printed webpages with your stakeholders, but the web page won't fit on a single printed page? Use this shareware tool to capture web pages in their entirety. Automatically resizes to fit on one page!

The Webby Awards

Great site for best practices when designing web pages.
Examples by category.

Bartleby.com

Invaluable tool for written communication. Reference material including dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations, Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk and White's Elements of Style, and countless other reference sources - all free and online.

Napoleon Related back to top

Napoleonic Guide

Great site for Napoleonic research. Invaluable portal to all
things Napoleon.

Napoleon Series

Excellent resource for FAQs, articles, and discussion on Napoleon.

Napoleonic Foundation

Granddaddy of the Napoleon sites, from the Napoleonic Foundation - a registered charity. Available in French or English. Check out the Key Dates section under Essential Napoleon for an interactive tour
of key events during Napoleon's reign.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Internet Guide

Another excellent portal to Napoleon and his times.

Napoleonic Literature

Great site for free access to online literature. All books and artwork contained on the site are out of copyright, and thus are available
free, online.

Institute on Napoleon and
the French Revolution

Very useful site from Florida State University's
Department of History.

Greenhill books

Great collection of rare books on Napoleon (and military history in general). See their Napoleonic Wars section. Join their Napoleonic
mailing list.

Napoleon and His Times
(Rare Books)

Extremely rare books on Napoleon. Top quality bookseller.

PBS Empires - Napoleon Site

PBS Napoleon site. Made for the PBS Empires series on Napoleon, this site is an invaluable resource for educational research. Check out the About Napoleon section, and click on the small pictures.

Roman Empire Related back to top

PBS - Roman Empire Site

Another great site from PBS. Great resource for anyone
reseaching the Roman Empire. Made for their PBS Empires
series on the Roman Empire.

The Illustrated History
of the Roman Empire

Best Roman Empire site on the Web.
Well organized and comprehensive.

The Electronic Passport
to the Roman Empire
(Mike Dowling)

Possibly the best site around on geography and history, from
a middle school teacher named Mr. Dowling. This is the link to
the Rome section, but the site covers all over the world
(throughout history).

Ancient Rome FAQs

Excellent FAQ site for anyone researching the Roman Empire.

The Romans Page

Some of the best sites for research come from school projects.
This one's from Coolmine Community School in Dublin Ireland.

The "Best of" Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire

Gibbon's book is comprehensive but overwhelming. This site makes it easy to look up key sections by topic. It's fully indexed, making it
valuable for research.

Lessons From History back to top

Hall History

Search for "Leadership Lessons" under the "Books" category. As the
site says, the most comprehensive History portal. It does not lie.

History of Military

Excellent portal to all kinds of books on history - Browsable by topic.

Mr Dowling's
Electronic Passport

This site is so good, it warrants being listed twice (under the Roman Empire section and here). Useful for anyone researching lessons
from history.

Handy little article titled "What if Napoleon Had Been a CIO?"
Brief snippets of the achievements, strengths, and weaknesses
of history's greatest leaders.