Don’t Settle

Neil Ducoff - January 18, 2010

Leadership ProjectsAtWork

Compromise is the friend of mediocrity and makes for a slippery slope in the effort to achieve outstanding outcomes on projects, says the author of No Compromise Leadership. Here he shares his eight drivers to ensure uncompromised results.

It doesn’t matter what your title is, if you’re the one responsible for getting a project across the finish line, you most certainly are a leader. But whom are you leading? A team that reports directly to you and recognizes you as its official leader? A collection of individuals from other departments or divisions; perhaps independent experts, or suppliers for whom the only apparent leadership influence is your designation as project manager?

And then there is the project from hell where others have already crashed and burned. As a project manager, “just say no” is rarely an option. You must lead it through to completion.

No-compromise leadership is a methodology built on a simple foundation: if it needs to be done, it gets done. This is far from lofty thinking. If you consider “compromise” as any thought or behavior that detracts, complicates or derails a project, it’s easier to see how compromise is a nemesis of achieving the desired outcomes. Procrastination by a key player in a project is compromise. So is taking shortcuts, allowing double standards …

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