I love Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG), the ones that are life changing, the ones that make your existence worthwhile, the ones that make you feel powered up like an energizer bunny. Goals like the one Al Gore is presenting in his “Challenge To Repower America“:
“Power all US energy within 10 years with non-carbon based fuel” or “100% Clean Energy in 10 Years”.
WOW. Now THAT is a goal. A big one. A hairy one.
Of course, I can complain about him not including the rest of the world. I could look under every rock trying to find small dubious details about Big Al’s motivations. But as Ghandi put it: “We must be the change we wish to see.” And I think, Project Managers must be the change if we want to reach goals like this one.
Entrepreneurs see the opportunity.
Venture capitalist provide the money.
Scientist invent the breakthrough.
Project Managers kill the thing by providing “the proper process”… Death by compliance.
We as Project Managers have to rise to this occasion. Why does this matter?
People will turn to us to get thing done. We are the Getting-Things-Done-Squad! We have to drive these changes trough the swamp of corporate and global politics; we have to go full speed with zero-visibility; we have to make it all fit together in the end. There is no time for ass covering, compliance-for-compliance-sake, review-upon-review, no-you-cannot-change Project Management.
Be the change. It matters.
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Very philosophical… But nonetheless true. If only Project Managers had the power the inventor of the concept has, things would get done.
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