Comments on: Project Management Office http://svprojectmanagement.com/project-management-office Project management wisdom from practictioners and the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Randall Englund http://svprojectmanagement.com/project-management-office/comment-page-1#comment-13703 Randall Englund Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:26:34 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/?p=3422#comment-13703 A "Quaker" is at the opposite end from an "Attila" on a continuum of an approach to leadership. An Attila leader practices command and control and "push"; a Quaker is a good neighbor who goes about getting results that "pulls" people into wanting to know how to get similar results. Pull has more power or success rate than push. A change initiative, as well as implementing a PMO, needs both to assess where leadership is on the continuum in the current environment and where they need to get to to be successful. These are metaphors intended to get people thinking about what leadership style is the norm for the organization where they are working. That assessment then leads to better action plans about how to initiate change. Randy Englund, www.englundpmc.com A “Quaker” is at the opposite end from an “Attila” on a continuum of an approach to leadership. An Attila leader practices command and control and “push”; a Quaker is a good neighbor who goes about getting results that “pulls” people into wanting to know how to get similar results. Pull has more power or success rate than push. A change initiative, as well as implementing a PMO, needs both to assess where leadership is on the continuum in the current environment and where they need to get to to be successful. These are metaphors intended to get people thinking about what leadership style is the norm for the organization where they are working. That assessment then leads to better action plans about how to initiate change.

Randy Englund, http://www.englundpmc.com

]]> By: Dian Schaffhauser http://svprojectmanagement.com/project-management-office/comment-page-1#comment-11949 Dian Schaffhauser Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:47:37 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/?p=3422#comment-11949 Randy, I'm not close enough to Santa Clara to take this class. But you have me intrigued. What *do* the Quakers have to offer in regards to change management? :-) -- Di Randy, I’m not close enough to Santa Clara to take this class. But you have me intrigued. What *do* the Quakers have to offer in regards to change management? :-)

– Di

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