You wouldn’t expect a Stakeholder Management workshop to be called “We’re Off To See The Wizard”, would you? Talking about The Yellow Brick Road-technique, keeping the Wicked Witch of The West out of your project, and, well, going to see the Wizard. Ah yes. The Wizard Of Oz as a metaphor! for Stakeholder Management. I …
This is a follow up post to “Leaders And Followers In Social Networks“. I love to write and talk about Project Management… uhm, Leadership… or “The Thing That A Project Manager Does To Move His Project In The Proper Direction, Related To People“. I want to share new and exciting stuff and hope it challenges …
I recently started working on the second iteration of The Project Shrink linear edition, the free ebook you can download here. This post is an early draft of a concept I am working on. It will focus on the supply and demand of information to nodes in social networks. People have a need for information …
What would happen if your project raised the Pirate Flag? What would happen if you let the external auditor “walk the plank”? What would happen if every night you raid the cafeteria and stole all the snacks? My guess is, you’ll get fired. But it will also clearly differentiate your project team from the larger …
In the previous post I used a picture of myself leaving the medina of Fes, Morocco through the gate. For me, this old city is a great illustration of human complexity. When discussing abstract concepts like networks of humans, complex adaptive systems and their fractal nature (a society is a large organization, an organization is …