Are We There Yet?

Ty is a work management evangelist; "accidental" project manager and marketing veteran with over 25 years of experience.

  Leadership   ProjectsAtWork  

For organizations that use projects to execute strategy, Yogi Berra hit the nail on the head, “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ’cause you might not get there.” Best then to get those closest to the work — the team — involved in the process.

I must admit, I am a gadget nerd. I recently purchased a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit for my wife. It’s a great gadget. When traveling by car, we just don’t get lost anymore and I don’t need to stop and ask for directions. In a strange city? No worries, our little GPS unit will get us where we want to go.

The trick to getting value out of our little GPS unit is to know where we’re headed before we embark on our journey. We simply input our desired destination and we get step-by-step instructions on how to get wherever it is we want to go.

I think the same thing applies to how we manage the projects our organization executes as well as how we lead the teams who work on them.

Where Are We Going?

Baseball great Yogi Berra once said, “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ‘cause you might not get there.”

I once worked in an organization where the company’s goals for each month were made public at the beginning of every month. As a result, we all knew what we needed to do to contribute to those …

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