I recently googled “Project Leadership 2018” and was advised of 340 million results found in only 0.48 seconds; for 1996 the number was a mere 59 million. In the first PMI BoK (1996) there were 8 references to leadership compared to 150 in 2017.
Leadership is recognised more today than yesteryear and far from being a fad it is an essential element of society in general and projects in particular; but what essentials does a project leader require? Continue reading
“Lies, damn lies and statistics” is an often-used phrase attributed to the 18th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He acknowledged the persuasive power of numbers to bolster weak arguments.
In a statistical moment his contemporary, Abraham Lincoln, said; “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time“. Politics, persuasion and manipulation (deception) have gone hand in hand for centuries.
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Whatever happens and whatever is decided upon in a project or in business, there will always be some retrospective analysis whether asked for or not. People will argue as to what happened and why and when, and opine on how it should have happened and, inevitably, who was responsible, or irresponsible. ‘Shutting the gate after the horse has bolted’; retrospective risk analysis…and it works every time! Continue reading