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Project Rituals
David Schmaltz is a project manager in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Processes inform action and instigate perspiration. Rituals invite reflection and stimulate insight and inspiration. Processes can become meaningless when the purpose behind them gets lost. Rituals can help inject purpose. Which of your current project’s tasks might be candidates for ritualization, and how does it actually work?
Part I of this series, “The Good, Er, Old Days,” recounted how projects were mustered before the practice of “project community” began taking root. Part II, “Someone Else’s Goals,” considered the importance of enlightened self-interest. Part III, “Five Little Minutes,” described how helping others find their project within the overall project creates community. Part IV, “Discover Your Project Identity” explained how to describe your project so everyone involved recognizes they are related. This, the final installment of the Discovering Project Community series, describes the rituals that keep a project’s community together.
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
Noted author Meg Wheatley reminds us that our workplaces today too frequently fail to provide the connections we as humans need to perform well. We struggle to find the time …
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