Project Politics and Pattern Recognition
From the An Influential Project Manager Blog
by Colin Gautrey
Today, more than ever, a project manager needs to be an influencer.
The purpose of this blog is to stimulate your journey towards greater influence. With influence, you can overcome the roadblocks thrown in your way, overcome opposition, align stakeholders and, enjoy your role even more.
However, since I know you are busy, the posts here will be short (about a minute), thought provoking and also drive you towards action.
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Interesting conversation today with an investment banker.
He is highly analytical, data specialist, concerned with advising IPO potentials. His specialism is finding the patterns in the data and extracting commercial value for his clients.
When it comes to politics, he is mystified, he cannot see the patterns. He thinks it chaotic.
Yet, with politics, the patterns are there, but unless you recognise them, they will do you head in, and frustrate your execution. Once you see the patterns, things become much clearer. Still, you may not be able to do anything about it, but the insight makes it easier to cope.
In fact, pattern recognition is one of the advanced capabilities I work with on my courses to master the politics. For this investment banker, it is about turning his analytical eye from the patterns in the data to the patterns in the social interactions.
Can you recognise the patterns?
Colin
PS: Delighted to see that my webinar How to Manage Project Politics has been fixed and restored to the OnDemand library here at the PMI.
Posted on: May 05, 2017 10:19 AM |
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