Sagacious Think

Delegate or dump?  Sometimes its hard to distinguish the two.  Often managers delegate the work they like the least as opposed to strategically assigning it.  In doing so, they’ve dumped the problems on others and walked away – its human nature after all, to avoid doing things we dislike.  But risks exist with simply passing [...]

Project management is a discipline that offers a lot of value outside of managing “projects”.  Many managers fail to see its advantages, claiming “I don’t have a project, I manage a department and its not finite”, or “project management is all about process and its too time consuming and resource intensive”.
To the first point, I [...]

Organizations rely on teams for critical strategies and operational tasks.
Key concepts include:

Learning is a key mechanism through which learning organizations become strategically and operationally adaptive and responsive. This is a powerful message, I’ve taken teams that together met and worked for the first time on a major implementation project, and were transferred to [...]

A charter is a wonderful tool that keeps all the stakeholders in agreement regarding the project. Project managers are well versed with a project charter because it is a foundation piece that helps build consensus as the project kicks off and teams are developing.
Other names for project charter include “project definition” or “terms of reference”. [...]

I took over a trouble project where the project manager, in a misguided attempt to stay on top of everything, had flattened the hierarchy and had all 26 employees reporting directly to him. It was chaos, with a single person acting as the communication conduit. No one can succeed in this set up; decisions are [...]