Predictor, Commander or Truster?

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.

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There is a new disruption going on in the business world today. It affects companies mostly small to medium sized, but has also begun sprouting up in remote pockets of large corporations as well. It affects management and, yes, it affects project management.

For some folks in business, this disruption could prove to be the biggest and most radical new concept in management in a long time. Others may have been doing it all along. Either way, this new approach to management can help increase team productivity and accountability while allowing a manager to do what managers should be doing--helping their teams to excel and their businesses to prosper.  Let’s take a quick look at a few management categories…

PC:Predict-and-Control
This method is characteristic of a lot of classic “waterfall” project and operations management. Predict-and-Control attempts to map the whole course of the project (or piece of work) ahead of time, and correctly (and hopefully) anticipate most every single thing that needs to happen to accomplish the goal. Once that is done, PC rigidly and sternly takes the steering wheel and executes the plan exactly as it was envisioned. Predict-and-Control likes to tap into the collective knowledge of a group of people. By pooling their collective experience, the team believes that everything can be anticipated beforehand.

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