I’m fascinated by people who can tell when others aren’t doing their part. Defining fault is to them a higher value alternative to contributing.
I go into a project figuring I’ll do it all, if it comes down to that. Now that’s a key decision criteria!
Get more than half of the project team feeling that way and you’ve got it licked. Leadership is not exhortation or blaming, but demonstration.
If you can get everybody pointing fingers, you’ve got a classic project meltdown. “I don’t think it was my wasting time in the constant meetings, some other guy who musta caused it!”
Lord Of The Rings was thirteen losers who could never complete the project…but they did. If you want to read how it would have happened had they used best practice project blamemaking, get a copy of Bored Of The Rings, now available as an ebook.
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