Includes index.

Turner Construction Company makes the Rocky Mountains thunder : delayed, stymied, frustrated at every turn, Turner Construction Company delivers the new Broncos football stadium, ahead of time and under budget -- Airborne Express and the technicolor challenge : Airborne Express enters a venture so fraught with deadlines that UPS and Fedex had backed away -- Mission to Mars--the 2001 Odyssey orbiter : successful deadline management doesn't have to be "rocket science" -- The ultimate deadline--how the FBI manages a kidnapping : agents rush to meet a literal "drop dead" deadline -- Boeing's race to deliver the 777 Wide-Body : a plane, and a management philosophy, for the twenty-first century -- Conoco's weekend of caring : volunteerism as the ultimate business deadline management tool.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.