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GIVE EVERYONE A
What if we treated everything we did as if it was a project? What if
every employee in your organisation goals were projects to
complete? It provides a simple shift in mindset and creates
ownership of tasks.
It can take an enormous amount of energy and focus on tasks to
execute a project well. So somehow isn’t it good to just think
instinctively that everything is a project. There are many ways to
look at all that we do, but the project-centric view is potent.
Everything in work, and many things in life, has a goal, a set of
constraints, some design challenges, a schedule, a few
dependencies, some key relationships, etc. And it’s hard to be
good at managing, leading, teaching, creating, making or building
just about anything if you have absolutely zero skills at project
management. You know there needs to be a driving force and
focus in your thinking, a constant source of social energy, a list or a
table or maybe a spread sheet, that makes it easier to push small
decisions forward, increasing the odds with every single effort that
the results will be good. It is not about being really well organised
but more about doing the thinking and having systems to drive you
forward so you can be accountable for you commitments.
When you get stuck, at work or in personal life matters, or see
someone else who is blocked, say, out loud, everything is a
project. If I’m blocked, what are my goals? What are my assets?
What are my liabilities? How can I divide this big thing I’m stuck on
into smaller pieces, one of which I might be able to tackle? And
sometimes just realizing there is a simple easy way to re-frame
anything into the form of a project is enough to get things moving
again.
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What if we treated everything we did as if it was a project? What if
every employee in your organisation goals were projects to
complete? It provides a simple shift in mindset and creates
ownership of tasks.
It can take an enormous amount of energy and focus on tasks to
execute a project well. So somehow isn’t it good to just think
instinctively that everything is a project. There are many ways to
look at all that we do, but the project-centric view is potent.
Everything in work, and many things in life, has a goal, a set of
constraints, some design challenges, a schedule, a few
dependencies, some key relationships, etc. And it’s hard to be
good at managing, leading, teaching, creating, making or building
just about anything if you have absolutely zero skills at project
management. You know there needs to be a driving force and
focus in your thinking, a constant source of social energy, a list or a
table or maybe a spread sheet, that makes it easier to push small
decisions forward, increasing the odds with every single effort that
the results will be good. It is not about being really well organised
but more about doing the thinking and having systems to drive you
forward so you can be accountable for you commitments.
When you get stuck, at work or in personal life matters, or see
someone else who is blocked, say, out loud, everything is a
project. If I’m blocked, what are my goals? What are my assets?
What are my liabilities? How can I divide this big thing I’m stuck on
into smaller pieces, one of which I might be able to tackle? And
sometimes just realizing there is a simple easy way to re-frame
anything into the form of a project is enough to get things moving
again.
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