Thoughts on building great teams, delivering results and becoming successful
Most people think leadership is a skill someone learns from books or job titles. A promotion comes, a new role comes, and suddenly the expectation is to lead. But leadership does not start with the title. It starts much earlier, in the moments where people naturally decide to follow someone. During my project leadership classes … Read more
If you don’t know where you are going, no route will take you there. (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, 1865) Without defining what is to be achieved, efforts can’t be coordinated and success becomes impossible, both for individuals and for organisations. As one of the most influential managers in Silicon Valley and the 1997 Time … Read more
Knowing who is doing what is a prerequisite to implement change. Organisations will always try to evolve their business by enhancing, improving or widening their line of products, services and channels, by redesigning their processes or by starting completely new lines of business or partnerships. The way to implement those changes is to execute projects. … Read more
Organisational debt is lack of structure evolving around individuals. Organisational debt is one of the hardest things to straighten out in an organisation. It’s very similar, and just as hard to cure, as its sibling “technical debt”. Technical debt Technical debt is a phrase originally coined by software developer Ward Cunningham. Wikipedia defines it as … Read more
Predicting project success from the very beginning. Projects often fail long before the first task is done. Most of the time it comes down to a few simple project team success factors. Why do some teams continuously achieve much more than other teams? Of course they are real teams with mutual trust between everybody and … Read more