Financial Management Specialist | US Peace CorpsYaounde, Centre, Cameroon
The 2026 World cup is over! It's time for lessons learned ...
Kindly put on your PM lens and share with us what stood out for you in the course of this mega event?
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Great question. I would first separate two different units of analysis: the World Cup as a global organizational system and Spain as the winning competitive team. Their outcomes emerged through different mechanisms and should generate different lessons. What stood out to me in both cases was the importance of converting distributed expertise and decisions into coherent execution. The risk in lessons learned is explaining success only through the final outcome while overlooking the architecture, choices and conditions that made it possible.
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1 reply by Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
Jul 21, 2026 5:54 AM
Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
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HI Luis, Thanks for this insightful angle of your response
From my point of view, I appreciated the capacity of Argentina's team to recover from negative results in the match against Cabo Verde and Egypt. Even though they were losing, the captain led the players to recover and end with a win.
The same situation can be replicated for projects that appear to be going through unsuccesfull path, correcting the direction and the strategy.
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1 reply by Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
Jul 21, 2026 5:55 AM
Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
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Wow! You really watch the matches with your PM lens on! Thanks for the feedback Veronica
Financial Management Specialist | US Peace CorpsYaounde, Centre, Cameroon
Jul 20, 2026 5:54 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Great question. I would first separate two different units of analysis: the World Cup as a global organizational system and Spain as the winning competitive team. Their outcomes emerged through different mechanisms and should generate different lessons. What stood out to me in both cases was the importance of converting distributed expertise and decisions into coherent execution. The risk in lessons learned is explaining success only through the final outcome while overlooking the architecture, choices and conditions that made it possible.
HI Luis, Thanks for this insightful angle of your response Saving Changes...
Financial Management Specialist | US Peace CorpsYaounde, Centre, Cameroon
Jul 20, 2026 3:10 PM
Replying to Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz
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From my point of view, I appreciated the capacity of Argentina's team to recover from negative results in the match against Cabo Verde and Egypt. Even though they were losing, the captain led the players to recover and end with a win.
The same situation can be replicated for projects that appear to be going through unsuccesfull path, correcting the direction and the strategy.
Wow! You really watch the matches with your PM lens on! Thanks for the feedback Veronica Saving Changes...
Project Manager| AWR Development (BD) Ltd. Cox's Bazer , Bangladesh
Great topic, Kwiyuh. Wearing the PM lens, what stood out most for me was stakeholder management at scale — coordinating host cities, broadcasters, sponsors, and security teams with zero room for delay, since the schedule couldn't slip like a normal project timeline. It's a strong reminder that in fixed-deadline projects, risk planning and contingency buffers matter more than almost anything else. Saving Changes...
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