The Project
I finally received my author’s copies of Project Program and Portfolio Management and I must say it looks good. The publishers have added some nice images on the chapter header pages and made very few changes to my text. However, the delivery service by Hermes was awful, they promised it early last week and it only arrived (via another courier) yesterday and the packaging was damaged.
Looking back at the notes from my last major project I see that I was disappointed that I hadn’t been able to deliver everything I would have liked. But on the positive side, the project team were good and they felt, rightly, that they had done a good job with what we were able to achieve, so maybe it was a success after all. While noting the things we hadn’t been able to achieve, I wrote it up their way, it was their project after all.
The Way
The wise project manager yields his position gracefully and returns to facilitating what is happening. We are all one; there are no sides to take. The wise project manager goes along with what is happening anyway.
After a bitter quarrel is resolved,
Grievance must remain.
How can this be considered good?
Therefore the sage keeps his half of the bargain,
And yet does not exact his tally from the other.
A man of virtue performs his part,
But a man without virtue exacts his due.
The Tao of heaven has no favourites,
Constantly approving mankind.
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