For many organizations, enormous turf battles are waged over who controls the projects, as well as who ‘owns’ the project managers and can therefore direct their activities. This article explores the challenges of establishing—and maintaining—control.
Keeping Score: What I Learned At The Olympics About Managing
A fundamental concept in our society is how we keep score. We are a competive breed, and there is no greater level of competition than at the Olympics. This article explores some insights into managing, inspired by the Winter Olympic Games.
Project Management Where You Live: Where Should The Responsibility For PM Really Lie?
Continuing our discussion of the role of project management in organizations, this article explores what organizations look like when project management and operations management start to play nicely together in the same sandbox.
Of Projects & Organizations: The 5 Habits Of Highly Dysfunctional Companies
The concept of a project-driven organization is a non-starter for most organizations. But it is an idea with staying power. Why? And what are the challenges that we are hoping (or would need) to be addressed? This article explores the fivce key dysfunctions organizations face.
When Projects & Organizations Collide: Revolution Or Road Kill?
The concept of management by projects is a non-starter. The average company is not a project-driven company, and likely never will be. So why is this an idea that continues to be so prevalent? What problems—real or perceived—do it’s proponents hope to address? This article explores this essential question.
Reason vs. Passion: What Drives Organizational Success?
Business is, at its heart, a rational beast. It operates according to rules, policies, logic and habit. The ability to think in a reasoned, logical and coherent manner is one that is highly prized up and down the org chart. To what extent should passion align with reason in organizational functioning?