Mission impossible project has a high chance of success and a high degree of satisfaction. Ugly project has a high chance of success but a low degree of satisfaction. Kamikaze project where everybody knows the project will fail but team members feel good about it. Suicide project, where everyone knows it’ll fail and they …
If we believe Brand U work is project related then the earliest homo sapiens had a Brand U project approach to gathering food, hunting for food, building a shelter, and propagating their clan. Each of these activities had a beginning and end with a specific life-driven purpose.
Projects: A plan or proposal; an undertaking requiring concerted effort. Jost, David, Ed., The American Heritage College Dictionary, 3rd Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
According to Tom Peters: “All white collar work is project work.”[i] The project life puts a person in the middle or outer ring of Charles Handy/Hutchins work model. Stephen Covey and other work gurus put it bluntly: “Your job description may change from day to day; in fact, your ‘job’ may be simply a series …
“After decades of wholesale neglect, companies are finally facing the fact of pathetic white-collar productivity and realizing that they need to organize work in a fundamentally new way … They (white collar workers) need to rethink the very nature of work. If they’re going to work in the future, they must be able to demonstrate …
Do you work in a projectized organization? Do you believe that you’ll project manage your work life? Do you volunteer or are selected for highly visible new projects? Why or why not are you selected? Are you adaptable to assume project manager/leader/coach roles? Do you believe that Brand U project managers will replace middle managers? …
Provide peace of mind Solve unusual problems Provide third party opinion Provide objectivity and independence Assist in organizational change Supplement in-house services Offer out-of-box thinking/doing Justify decisions Provide political cover
What’s a consultant? ‘Someone who takes your watch to tell you the time.’ Or, ‘someone 50 miles from home.’ We’ve all heard these jokes. The reality is there are many more Brand U’s telling time and being more than 50 miles from home working as consultants. Why are there these jokes? Most consulting is project …
Customers want more, faster, cheaper, and better Product life cycles are halved and shrinking further Brand U’s relish challenge People must do more, faster, with less Cross functional virtual project teams do more work Work is core-processed or projectized Project manager replaces middle manager Work is chunked into projects and sub-projects Pay is great
Tom Peters, the guru’s guru, declares that if you, the Brand U, don’t spend up to 70% of your time on projects, you’re sushi. Projects give you visibility, wide experience, and opportunities. Tom Peters has capitalized on the trend that we’ll all be itinerant free agents. He’s trademarked the phrase, ‘The Power of You.’TM Smart. …
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