The Blind Men and the Elephant : Mastering Project Work EPUB
by David A. Schmaltz
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If you work, you probably manage projects every day-even if "project manager" isn't in your official title-and you know how frustrating the experience can be.
Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor, David Schmaltz brilliantly identifies the true root cause of the difficulties in project work: "incoherence" (the inability of a group of people to make common meaning from their common experience). Schmaltz exposes such oft-cited difficulties as poor planning, weak leadership, and fickle customers as poor excuses for project failure, providing a set of simple, project coherence-building techniques that anyone can use to achieve success.
He explains how "wickedness" develops when a team over-relies on their leader for guidance rather than tapping their true source of power and authority-the individual. The Blind Men and the Elephant explores just how much influence is completely within each individual's control.
Using real-world stories, Schmaltz undermines the excuses that may be keeping you trapped in meaningless work, offering practical guidance for overcoming the inevitable difficulties of project work.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Publication Date:13/04/2003
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- ISBN:9781609943219
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- Publication Date:13/04/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9781609943219
