‘Accelerating Results In The Age Of Disruption’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘It is vital to retain absolute faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.’

‘Find a good thing and count on this. A nemesis will appear. Nothing good lasts forever because others will want to share it.’

‘Avoid random. Choose design.’ Because ‘random designs = random results.’

‘To enable significant change requires help from others. And those others will only willingly offer help when change facilitators walk the talk. Leaders of change espouse big, bold visions. They work both formal and informal channels to reach others to create a guiding coalition that will bust up inertia and bureaucracy.’

‘Change will never happen without an internal felt need for change. Until the person, or leadership team, feels dissatisfaction coming from within, change will be hard to muster and sustain.’

‘Reinvention must be looked upon as glass-half-full versus glass-half-empty exercise.’

‘Reflecting on your character and behaviours by identifying your blind spots and accepting that you ‘don’t know what you don’t know’ will make you more attractive and strengthen your position.’

‘Master change agents use a blended combination of both art and science when bringing about powerful change.’

‘Without viewing the total system that you are trying to change and understanding the interactions of each component, you can never truly hope to effect lasting change.’

‘No matter how well you engineer the reinvention effort, its success ultimately rests on the quality of leadership.’

Source

Shane Cragun and Kate Sweetman (2016). Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption

How To Become A Great Project Manager

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‘Successful project managers see their primary role as leading the project from living order to geometric order.’

‘The objective of the manager should be to become a practitioner by learning from practice and not by learning about practice.’

‘In a dynamic environment, formulation of objectives must be bound up with action in an interactive and continous process.’

‘To be successful in practicing responsive agility, a project manager must operate within an organizational culture that acknowledges the unavoidability of unexpected events.’

‘Managers who maintain a stationary position may be forced to make complex judgments with incomplete or misleading information.’

‘In order to prevent a major disruption, the project manager must be willing to initiate a change rather than simply respond to events.’

‘Managers in successful projects feel a total personal accountability for results.’

‘Taking initiative while consistently challenging the status quo is one of the key ingredients in developing leadership competence.’

‘Step away from your work for a moment to better understand it, learn from it, and then share what you learned with others.’

‘A world dominated by living order requires moving from a one-size-fits-all paradigm to tailoring the decisions to the context of the specific situation.‘

‘Successful project managers have a hedgehog’s focus on results and fox’s resourcefulness when challenging the status quo is necessary.’

Source

Alexander Laufer, Terry Little, Jeffrey Russell, and Bruce Maas (2018). Becoming a Project Leader: Blending Planning, Agility, Resilience, and Collaboration to Deliver Successful Projects