If you’re a Wanderer (like me /blush), you know well that nothing could be further from the truth. While you might look like your mind is wandering, you’re actually dealing with multiple crises in your head at the same time, and trying to sift through them at the same time you’re trying to pay attention to what’s happening around you. While your project team is waving their arms in front of you, and seemingly from a great distance shouting “hello! hello! Is anyone home?!”, you’re trapped inside your own head with multiple problems.
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So, people keep telling me that multitasking is an effective management technique, and I keep insisting that it isn’t. When one thing has your attention, you’re not paying attention to the other things on your plate. Until now I’ve never had an effective demonstration.
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The poor Terrier really means well. Always searching, they are full of purpose. And when they recognize a problem, they will latch on to it tooth and nail, dissecting it and re-dissecting it until you wouldn’t think there was another way you could possibly look at it. The trouble with Terriers is, they have a lot of trouble letting go. Even bigger trouble for Terriers is, while they’re fixated, they can’t see anything else that’s going on.
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Premature Solutioners make others crazy. It’s not just the clients who suffer. Everyone on the project team who has done any work on a solution that is inappropriate has to claw everything back and try to build a new solution based on whatever Frankenstein parts are left. The work has already been paid for, and now must be paid again. It doesn’t matter what type of contract exists… somebody, somewhere is paying for the rework.
Read more and share your opinion →Time for another Mentor Room recommendation. Today I’m offering a very important book for leaders called “slide:ology”. Once again, this book has nothing to do with project management directly. Project managers need to know how to dance. Every stakeholder I’ve ever met has made me burn my salsa shoes right into the ground while a [...]
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Welcome to part two of my series on destructive project manager behaviours. Last time we looked at abdication of responsibility. I called a manager who demonstrated this “The Sack“, because they let themselves be carried along by others on their project. I rated the behaviour as “Dangerous”: a Sack basically cuts the head off his or her project, but because others invariably come to the rescue, collateral damage of this behaviour is lessened.
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