More often than not, a project manager has to influence without authority. It’s been said we use only 10-20% of our mental capacity; I posit that we also use only a small portion of our influence capacity, maybe only 10%. If you could double your influence capacity, improving your capabilities by 10%, imagine the impact!
More gets accomplished, less stress, partners cooperate instead of resist, work is more fun - these are a few potential benefits. You can tame the naturally occurring chaos, not by making it go away, but by looking for patterns in human behavior and by applying a systematic set of process steps that lead to higher probability of project success. Because you apply this approach to more activities and improve your overall return on investments by treating everything as a project, you find yourself asking the same question, ‘What is not a project?’
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