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Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 24)
Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his “agile” approach to project management and his skills as a PM in the summer of 1940. Part 23 looked at the historical sequence of events in August 1940 for the utilization and the effectiveness of Churchill’s solution. To date, it had performed well and proven its value.
This article looks at how it allowed the team to react with agility in the final (fourth) phase of the battle. This starts in September with “The Blitz”, when the city of London is heavily bombed as the Luftwaffe retaliate to the RAF bombing raids on Berlin (August 24-29) and hope to destroy British morale. Here is a daily breakdown of key responses through September:
1st: The war cabinet learns of concerted attacks on the populations and big cities. Simultaneously, Hitler mistakenly believes his fighters have mastery of the skies.
5th: Bentley Priory (Part 20) realizes the switch in enemy tactics to London is ongoing, which allows Dowding to rebuild Group 11 squadrons.
6th: The war cabinet learns RAF loses were creeping up to Luftwaffe levels. The RAF looses 466 fighters and receives 269 new ones; 103 pilots are killed and 128 wounded. The RAF is very close to defeat.
7th:BletchleyPark (Part 19) fails to warn Dowding of a massive 900-aircraft attack. Too few pilots are in…
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