Management by Baseball
Neat article about Jeff Angus. I like his approach of using sports figures and situations to illustrate business problems and solutions. I've tried to do that, with mixed results, myself.
One sports analogy that I noted on my last engagement: The Senior Managers of the PMO that I was part of would preach that the Project Managers should operate as a team, and at times would even suggest that we did so. I, respectfully, observed that the PMs operated less as a team, and more as a league, with each team in competition. Note that a league needs multiple, competitive teams to succeed, but in the end, each team is looking out for their own best interests. Most of the PMs agreed with my assessment, most of the Senior folks did not see how it could be possible.
Some cool Jeff Angus stuff:
His Blog
His Book: Management by Baseball : The Official Rules for Winning Management in Any Field
His website
One sports analogy that I noted on my last engagement: The Senior Managers of the PMO that I was part of would preach that the Project Managers should operate as a team, and at times would even suggest that we did so. I, respectfully, observed that the PMs operated less as a team, and more as a league, with each team in competition. Note that a league needs multiple, competitive teams to succeed, but in the end, each team is looking out for their own best interests. Most of the PMs agreed with my assessment, most of the Senior folks did not see how it could be possible.
Some cool Jeff Angus stuff:
His Blog
His Book: Management by Baseball : The Official Rules for Winning Management in Any Field
His website
posted by Steve at 7/14/2006 09:13:00 PM
1 Comments:
Steve:
Thank you for your thoughtful
response to a vexing problem.
Comments always welcome.
www.lazyonebenn.blogspot.com
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