Project Politics: How to Win The Game of Projects
Mike Clayton
Communicator, educator, speaker, and YouTuber focusing on Project Management
A seasoned Project Manager, you quickly learn that there’s no escaping project politics.
It’s a fact of life.
‘ When you play a game of projects you deliver or you fail.’
But you may find yourself tempted to say something like: ‘Hang on, I’m a project manager: not a politician.’
That would be nice, wouldn’t it? You could spend your days focusing on the basic management principles.
Except, what are the Basic Project Management Principles?
Well, pretty near the top is… Stakeholder Engagement. And what’s that all about? Politics.
So, you’ll always came back to the political dimension.
Because it’s always there in real life. No matter how much you may want to; you cannot escape project politics. So you do need to understand the basics.
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