Journal Themes
Competitiveness and combativeness can work against persuasion, collaboration, and trust-building - key for both project and change work
A psychological orientation towards status, control, and self-protection may overpower the collaborative instincts that good project management usually requires. A few different bodies of literature speak to this. I wanted to dig further into some of these.
Transformation projects have a human undercurrent
When people work on a transformation programme, they are not always just delivering tasks; they may also be living with uncertainty about their role, their team, their managers, their status, their expertise, their workload, and sometimes their future employment.
