Alexandre CostaScrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologiesLoures, Portugal
According to an article Harvard business review there are 4 types of project managers with the following characteristics described bellow: 1 -Strategy should be, 2-Growth opportunity is, 3 -organizational followers should, 4 - Weapon of choice.
Prophet - 1 -Challenged. 2- A grand vision. 3 -Do a leap of Faith. 4 - Persuasive vision Gambler - 1 -Followed. 2 -A bet. 3 - Gamble a bit and pursue rewards 4 - Potential Reward. Expert - 1 - Challenged. 2 - An analisys. 3 - Listen to be advice act upon this 4 - stay within strategy and Follow analisys. Executor- 1 - Followed. 2 - A sure thing. 3 - Well supported arguments. 4 -Business cases and reports.
According the article, the bottom line is that the diversity of styles offers a competitive advantage in terms of business development, and all four types are necessary pieces of your organizational constellation, even though the optimal dose of each may differ.
I found this article funny, interesting and arguably, good to promote a discussion Do you think it is possible to divide the project managers in this categories (for me this is a novelty)? If you agree with this classification what do you think is the optimal dose of each type? (Should depend of the type of the organization) Saving Changes...
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