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Solving the People Puzzle
Tom's latest eBook has been released on Amazon: "The 7 Myths of IT Integrations". Tom is also a Program Director for a large Midwest corporation and has been an adjunct faculty member at Walsh College. He has managed global web initiatives, data center moves and large multi-million dollar programs.
What is one of the biggest challenges you will ever encounter on any project that you will ever manage? Here’s your clue: It doesn’t have to do with the issues, it has nothing to with project complexity, and it doesn’t even touch technology…
It’s people.
You can set up the best project in history. You can meticulously document all of the plans, flawlessly map out the execution, comprehensively accumulate all of the requirements and assess all of the risks. You can cover every base. Your project can be buttoned up airtight from front to back and yet you could still fail. . .
…if you don’t understand how to manage and lead people.
Dealing with people is one of the hardest things you will ever run across in life, not just on a project. So how do you do it? What’s the secret? What can you learn or what key skills can you tune in to, and be aware of, that will allow you to successfully solve the People Puzzle? How can you learn to access people so that you can get the best out of them?
Just like everything else connected to people the answer is multi-faceted and complicated. People by their very nature don’t fit into neat little compartments each with an instruction manual for how to get the best out of him or her.
Well, there was work done a number of years ago that I …
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