Introspection and Project Management

The difference between a mirror and successful Project Management is that the mirror allows the Project Manager (PM) to look AT herself while a successful project allows her to look INTO herself.

While managing a complex project, what are your fears, your strengths, your boundaries, your goals and your possibilities when it counts? Can you really dig deep and find your reserves of self-confidence, passion, empathy and courage?  How can you maintain your tenacity, humility, resilience and integrity in the midst of project related critical decisions?

The answers to all aforementioned questions may be found in stepping up and actually taking responsibility for management of a project which will allow you to be accountable to yourself and to yourself alone.

As the American cartoonist James Grover Thurber said

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, running to and why”

Sounds like he was a potentially great PM

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