Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
I am currently reading Carol Dweck´s book " Mindset". According to her, people with a fixed mindset are risk averse and are inclined to think that talent is something that can´t be developed with hard work, either one has it or doesn´t. People with a growth mindset aren´t affraid of making mistakes or taking up challenging tasks.
Have you changed or modified your mindset throughout your PM career? Share your experience. Saving Changes...
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Thanks for the article, Sergio, you make very valid points. The authour of the book Mindset makes the difference between growth and fix mindset quite simplistic. For instance, John McEnroe would lose a game and his fix mindset would hinder him from analyzing his mistakes and take the required corrective actions. On the other hand, when Michael Jordan failed the last basket and lost the game, he would not find excuses and wake up the very next day and train the missed shot for hours. Saving Changes...
Throughout my engineering career, now over 30 years, I've always had to adopt an "open mind set" in order to grow and learn. It was the "sink or swim" situation often. The best people, and the best organizations are always the ones pushing themselves further in pursuit of greater truth and accomplishments. Yes, of course, there are always situations where we "dig in" and adopt an attitude of "I know better" and refuse to accept new solutions, ideas, methodologies, etc. It is natural, especially when one gets older.
I will say this however, it seems to me that in the last 20-30 years or so, there has generally been a loss in knowledge as it pertains to the discipline of systems engineering. It has slowly creep into our way of doing things, which is now a shadow of our formal "self". Even NASA openly admits they cannot replicate the technology that sent man to the moon in the late 60's. What!? So in a strange way, we have somehow inexplicably de-evolved with whatever mindset has brought us here. Saving Changes...
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