Project Managers face dilemmas every day; it comes with the job. Project management has developed as a discipline to help managers deal with their dilemmas. The basic one is how to reconcile the sponsor’s demands for efficiency with the end-users’ quality needs. This has always been so, probably ever since the pyramids were built. However, [...]
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Projects as Cultural Experiences: interPM 2009 video
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Projects have their own rhythm. The classical instruments of project management only take you so far. Last year, the interPM conference focused on the role that culture plays in shaping a project’s rhythm. The GPM (German Project Management Association) has just released a video of the conference, Projekte als Kulturerlebnis (Projects as Cultural Experiences). [...]
Leadership Lessons from a Presidential Campaign Manager
David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign, addressed the German Project Management Forum in Berlin yesterday via satellite. I was busy translating for colleagues who couldn’t keep up with his (for non-native speakers) slightly too fast delivery. I’d no time to take notes, so this is just a a rough summary. The speech [...]
InterPM 2009 – Still time to register!
The InterPM conference on the future of project management will be held on 19-20 June 2009 in Glashütten, near Frankfurt, with the them “Projects as a Cultural Experience”. The event is a nice mix of key note addresses, some talks and workshops and a large portion of Open Space where participants get to explore whatever [...]
Twitter Goes Enneagram Teachers’ Weekend, Part 3
You may need to read Part 0 of this series to make sense of what follows.
The morning began with an hour of meditation, followed by a repetitive question.
cj76530: Repetitive question for all #enneagram Types: what does development mean for you?
Repetitive Question is an excellent instrument [...]
Twitter goes Enneagram Teachers Weekend, Part 2
You may need to read Parts 0 and 1 of this series to make some sense of what follows.
As ever, at such events, the side conversations are the best; especially the misunderstandings. I had so much fun discussing different approaches to leadership development after lunch that I missed out on the Gurdjieff Movements hour. Oh, [...]
Twitter goes German Enneagram Teachers’ Weekend, Part 1
You may need to read Part 0 of this series to make some sense of what follows.
The context for all the comments is that people were discussing about how they have developed and matured over the years: what was helpful, what was more challenging. Although the focus was not on professional life, there’s still a [...]
Twitter goes German Enneagram Teacher’ Weekend, Part 0
I’m just back from the Spring meeting of the annual German Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition (the mouthful shortens to E-MT in German, thank goodness!). It’s always to good to catch up with old friends and catch some relaxed learning at the same time. One of the specialties of this approach to the Enneagram [...]
InterPM 2009
The InterPM conference on the future of project management will be held on 19-20 June 2009 in Glashütten, near Frankfurt, with the them “Projects as a Cultural Experience”. The event is a nice mix of key note addresses, some talks and workshops and a large portion of Open Space where participants get to explore whatever [...]
InterPM 2008
The dust has settled on this year’s InterPM conference on Innovation through Project Management, where Klaus Wagenhals and I (representing metisLeadership) held the Open Space at the conference.
We also facilitated an interdisciplinary warm-up workshop in which participants experienced the different perspectives on innovation that different professions hold. Of 80 participants, only four had a sociology [...]
