Lucid Thoughts - Chapter 5

Human beings make projects and programmes work. We continually search for new methods and tools perhaps as a way of avoiding the fact that eventually we have to look to our own and others’ behaviour to make things work.

Much of our current thinking and work with other close colleagues is to look to human beings and their behaviour as the factor that will transform the application of project and programme management in future. The opportunity for improvement remains huge and we must keep striving to find ways of making a marked difference.

39 The pros and cons of knowledge based qualifications
40 International team working; what makes a difference?
41 Taking responsibility for making the sponsor/project manager
partnership work
42 Using the team; don’t be a ‘jack of all trades and master of none’
43 Is project management counter-cultural; where are we stopping
ourselves doing the right thing?
44 Domain experience: a double edged sword
45 Core competences for Project Managers - avoiding the need
to ‘walk on water’
46 Popularity vs. Profession: the project management dilemma
47 Making the theory work for those impossible projects
48 The double edged sword returns
49 Culture eats strategy for breakfast!
50 50 ways to lead your project
57 Conflict in Project Management: what an opportunity!
58 Project Management ‘Western’ style
59 The gift of energy
71 In a virtual world, every word counts