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For our last post of 2021, I am going to leave your head spinning. Almost literally.
It’s going to be short and sweet, but I am going to follow up with you in the clean new year.
What’s all this about spinning …and cleanliness ?
I want to end 2021 by sending you to a podcast episode from Malcolm Gladwell. He has an OUTSTANDING podcast series called Revisionist History . I would say every episode is worth a listen.
In its own words, here’s what the podcast says about itself:
Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past — an event, a person, an idea, even a song — and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
The particular episode to which I implore that you listen (and then come back early next year for a discussion) is called Laundry Done Right . And yes. It is about washing your clothes. What the (insert bleep here) does this have to do with project management, you ask?
Well, for the past 10 years or so, I have been giving talks about sustainability in project management in Italy, Costa Rica, South Africa, Canada, the USA, The Netherlands, Malaysia, and China. And I have been using the analogy of a washing machine as a way to get project managers to – well – to become project leaders, to think about delivering value rather than just producing outputs or outcomes. The analogy (not to give away the punch line) has to do with where the ecological value could come from in improving the whole process of washing your clothes. It's about a cycle, all right - but not a wash cycle - or at least not only a wash cycle. More next year - in other words, in a few days.
Gladwell nails it in this episode. Give it a listen and I promise to connect this to sustainability thinking in project management (read that as project leadership) on the other side of 11:59:59PM, 31-December, 2021.
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Hope you enjoy it. HAPPY NEW YEAR! May all of your projects be successful, and deliver ongoing value!
Cheers!
Rich Maltzman, PMP
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