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In Nick Obolensky’s interview he highlights Exhibition Road in London as an example when asked about the practice of distributed management. Imagine taking a busy road and making it a shared space for pedestrians, bicycles, cars and busses. What if that road had few markings, no traffic lights, no curbs, and instead was sprinkled with benches, trees and lamps? Too chaotic? Would it work? Would each person, driving or walking, be conscious and take responsibility for what he or she is doing without an authority enforcing rules? So far, it looks like Exhibition Road works fine. But can a business successfully run in a similar model of distributed leadership rather than in a hierarchy?
Do watch the video to hear Nick’s thoughts on this and read the comments thread afterwards.
Nick is the author of Complex Adaptive Leadership.
Antonio Nieto Rodriguez is author of The Focused Organization published by Gower, and an expert in strategy execution and project management. He currently works with BNP Paribas as Head of Transversal Portfolio Management. Previously he was Head of Post Merger Integration at Fortis Bank, and Global Lead Practitioner for the Project and Portfolio Management practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He is a visiting professor to the MBA courses at Solvay, and Nyenrode Business Schools where he teaches strategy execution and program management; a founder member of the PMI European Corporate Council; and an active speaker and presenter on strategy execution and project portfolio management. Here is his speaker schedule for May/June:
22 May 2012 - ’The Focused Organization at Solvay Business School – Brussels.
13 June 2012 – PMI London Chapter meeting (Thomson Reuters) – London.
19 June 2012 – Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit – London, UK
26 June 2012 – European PMO Symposium 2012 – Berlin
A free case study chapter can be downloaded at: www.gowerpublishing.com/focusedorganization
Politics. Every project has politics. In a Girl’s Guide to Project Management, Elizabeth Harrin has interviewed Gower author Nita Martin, Managing Director of Pure Indigo. Nita’s book, Project Politics: A Systematic Approach to Managing Complex Relationships, deals with that difficult subject of projects and politics.
Gower author Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is one of the speakers who has recorded a podcast for ca technologies’ Global IT Illuminaries ’12, a virtual event featuring IT innovators. Nieto-Rodriguez who is Professor of Project Management at the Solvay Business School and Head of Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis, is speaking on Selling Project Portfolio Management to the C-Suite. This 24hr virtual event is on 29th February – for further information and to register click here.
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is author of the forthcoming Gower title: The Focused Organization: How Concentrating on a Few Key Initiatives Can Dramatically Improve Strategy Execution.
This month Dr Lynda Bourne author of Advising Upwards: A Framework for Understanding and Engaging Senior Management Stakeholders talks to Elizabeth Harrin about helping project managers communicate more effectively with executive stakeholders.
Professor Chris Mowles, author of Rethinking Management: Radical insights from the Complexity Sciences has written an opinion piece for Economia on Complexity and Crisis in the Eurozone
Whilst Dr Emanuel Camilleri, author of Project Success: Critical Factors & Behaviours has written in PM World Today about going beyond project management to define project success.
When Were You Last Misled?
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By someone at work, promising help but failing to deliver; saying they were too busy to help you; promising to achieve a sales figure which they subsequently failed to make? They would all fit our definition.
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Accidentally by a stranger you asked for directions? That too would fit – MisLeadership doesn’t have to be on purpose.
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Deliberately by a tennis opponent disguising a drop shot, or card player fooling you into thinking they did not have the King of Spades? That would be misleading but is all part of the false situation of a game. Should it come under the MisLeadership umbrella?
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Exploitatively, by someone selling you a house knowing it regularly floods? Now that would fit anyone’s definition – or would it? Perhaps it is a case of ‘caveat emptor’ – let the buyer beware.
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Negligently by someone who forgot to warn you the petrol tank was almost empty? That is a tricky one. They presumably didn’t do it on purpose and perhaps it was your responsibility to check.
Intrigued? Read the introduction from John Rayment and Jonathan Smith’s ‘MisLeadership‘ here: http://bit.ly/yfS8yP
Most projects have two factors in common i.e. they involve people and they bring about change. These two factors are fundamental to the success of any project yet they are given only scant reference in the ‘models’ of project management.
The psychology of managing people and change is increasingly emerging as a significant success factor in project management. In Wellingtone’s Project Management Blog Sharon De Mascia offers a plan to ensure you pay these factors sufficient attention.
Sharon De Mascia is the Director of a business psychology consultancy by the name of ‘Cognoscenti’. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a member of the Chartered Institute of People and Development. She is also Prince2 qualified. She is a visiting Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and a Supervisor on the global MBA at Manchester Business School. De Mascia is the author of Project Psychology published by Gower.
Museum Education Monitor (MEM) tracks and records research and resources in museum education worldwide.
The aim of MEM is to help create a ‘road map’ to new and current learning in museum education.
It has recently polled its readers about the most valuable books in the field in order to create a Museum Educators Booklist – we are happy to announce that Gower’s Cultural Leadership Handbook by Robert Hewison and John Holden featured at number 8 in this poll. For more information, or to take part in this ongoing survey and the activities of MEM see their facebook page.
The 200th episode of The Project Management Podcast is released today, celebrating 6 years of bringing project management topics to beginners and experts. The four-part episode includes interviews with twenty project management experts who all provide their unique opinions about the number-one challenge that project management is facing today. The project management gurus sharing their expertise with listeners include Mark Perry, Peter Taylor, Margaret Meloni, Andy Kaufman, Elizabeth Harrin as well as the presidents of the three leading project management associations: Mark Langley (PMI), Roberto Mori (IPMA) and Stacy Goff (ASAPM).
The show has received nearly 6 million downloads and is available for free through iTunes or The Project Management Podcast website.
Peter Taylor is author of the recently published Leading Successful PMOs and Elizabeth Harrin is author of Customer-Centric Project Management (both published by Gower).
