For most of us to do our jobs well, ‘think time’ is required – the time to see or hear new information, and then to assimilate it into what we already know. This process can give us a new perspective on issues – influencing our perspective so that what seemed urgent before may be cast in a different light. Likewise, what was invisible before may now be seen as an issue that will bite the team in the butt if
Have you ever found yourself given an ‘opportunity’ to be responsible for a project, but not a clue as to how to successfully manage it? Projects are being created everywhere – from implementing a new creative design, to launching a new product, to implementing a new organizational initiative – and they all are being called projects. Many of us who are given this opportunity just don’t have much background in project management. We become ‘accidental’ project managers – responsible for
I just got off the phone with a good friend of mine. She and I were celebrating her daughter’s test results – not because of the diagnosis, but because of the knowledge that the testing brought. Her daughter has a learning disability and the diagnosis unlocked information, insight, and understanding about who she is, why she has struggled, and how she can compensate with the disability. Her daughter has always been very smart – that has never been a question.