Deadline! How Premier Organizations Win the Race Against Time.

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: Bookshelf

By Dan Carrison. Amacom, 256 pages. $24.95.

Time is the enemy of so many corporate endeavors, so a book chronicling companies that overcame deadline pressures and delivered top project results sounds intriguing. And it is. Dan Carrison, an author and columnist, focuses intently on six cases and the challenges the organizations

overcame -- everything from resource shortages to political pressures and infrastructure conflicts, and more. Actually, one example looks not at a company but the FBI's handling of a kidnapping case.

Drawing from what he says were 100 hours of interviews with the various principals in these very different enterprises -- among them Turner Construction...