Earlier this week I posted on Gantthead.com: “I Am In My Comfort Zone. And Staying There.“: There is this illusion that if you jump outside your zone, you’ll grow. By taking incredible risks, you reach for the stars. By taking the leap of faith, you get somewhere exotic and extraordinary. The same leap of faith …
Sometimes you shift to automatic pilot. When your brain is tired, you react instantly to information. Every stimulus gets a fast and automatic response. Fear locks your brain too. “Our people, good. Other people, bad.” “Mac, good. Windows, bad.” “Same, good. Different, bad.” This “automatic pilot” is based upon our mental model that happens to …
We all know what we “should” do to run a project. Putting the right structures and processes in place. Getting the proper authorizations and doing communication and stuff. But sometimes we are operating in unknown organizations. Sometimes we think we have the right authority, but in reality we don’t. Sometimes we just get a team …