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I just found this is brief article describing how to succeed at office politics without all the fluff you usually see. The only weakness is that it doesn’t apply the precepts to IT project management. So I’ll fix that, because, if you are like other project managers, you might experience a little office politics now and then.
One good point to remember is the “be an expert” in the organization. As an expert in project management, you can imagine the advantage you can have, this being a very, very, very, difficult profession. With expertise comes prestige, a special kind of influential power that the very successful have learned to grow. Allow me to suggest that gantthead.com can be a key resource for you, but you have to use what you learn, and keep improving. There is plenty of material here to grow your own expertise and prestige.
The article lists another useful point: Build a network. Trying to improve your skills? Then add network members who have a higher skill level, especially if they are at the level you aspire to. With such a network, you can get advice to avoid office politics and to troubleshoot political situations when they arise. You can imagine that it would be useful to have a network with members in your organization - and safely out of your organization to be more neutral with their advice. Here’s a shortcut: Get involved in gantthead’s network!
I really didn’t mean for this post to be such a commercial, but right is right. Anyway, we’ll mine this article more next post.
Posted on: December 18, 2007 10:55 PM |
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