It is not about your ideas, your smarts, your innovation, your strategy or even your likability. The basis for success on whatever you set out to achieve boils down to one common element; your ability to manage projects.
Everything is a project. Whether it is giving a speech, running an event, building a website, planning a dinner, getting in shape or organizing your sock drawer. Even the simple art of effectively running your next meeting is a project.
Ask any successful person and they will agree. No matter how big or how small the challenge, planning and executing on the basis that everything boils down to manging small projects that role up into bigger ones somehow makes that big audacious goal you've set out (or has been set out for you) manageable.
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Agreed.
When you break it down everything is either project management or problem solving (which can be viewed as one and the same)
thanks for the comment Arie. Good to hear from you.
I agree completely.
When you look at the vast amount of things that need to be accomplished on a 3 year, 1 year, 6 month, 3 month, weekly, daily, hourly basis you realize that taking a methodic approach to what is to be done by breaking it down to ‘manageable’ project sized activities makes it all seem less daunting.
Having a solid grasp on project management fundamentals and being able to execute on these is a must, allowing us to bring structure to what sometimes seems like chaos.
Bria Hyland
I never have thought about everything in this light, but you are spot on. Everything is an attempt that will be tweaked and improved upon. Having this attitude changes things.