By Wayne Goulding on
January 22nd, 2010
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Where to Go From Here?
I realize that most of us will never face the challenges confronted by Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, on Apollo 13, but the mental exercise is worth doing. If you haven’t seen the movie, or have seen it and view it as entrainment at the time, I suggest renting it and putting yourself in Gene’s shoes while watching. You can put yourself through an endless stream of questions:
- Would I have Gene’s mental toughness?
- Would I be prepared to ratchet-up my leadership skills and rally the troops?
- Do I have the knowledge in problem solving and decision making necessary?
- How can I improve my day-to-day leadership, now I’ve seen one of the best project leaders in action?
- Etc., etc. ….
Remember it is a journey of a thousand steps and it starts with just one.
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Categories: Implementing project management, Leadership
Tags: Leaderhip, process
Like many of his colleagues Wayne is an “accidental project manager”, starting as a mechanical designer, advancing into engineering, passing into engineering planning, growing to lead global, high-tech, complex programs, advising senior management in program/project process development.
Wayne’s decades of work have yielded a diverse experience set; his jobs included, designing of machine tools, designing for automated assembly, manufacturing engineer, managing a software application development project, managing customer relations, managing product release to market programs, leading a non-profit organization, managing telecom upgrade projects, managing customer call center projects, managing project portfolio process development; his career has journeyed through industry sectors in metal-working/assembly manufacturing, nuclear energy, computer manufacturing, automotive, telecommunications; his forms of employment have run the full gambit, from full-time employee, to contractor, to consultant; he has contributed directly to, IBM, Westinghouse, Intuit, PMI-Silicon Valley Chapter, Honda/Acura, SoftReach Services, plus others; thru customer interfacing jobs he has worked with numerous Fortune 500 corporations many at the executive level.
Educationally, Wayne has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Business Administration, and a certificate in Program/Project Management. He is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) and is past president of the PMI-Silicon Valley chapter.
With all the above, and more, it is clear Wayne is not one to sit idle. He is constantly doing, learning or teaching. Philosophically he believes a person’s success is measured in project achievements, new perspectives gained, new people met and help given along the way.
(www.waynegoulding.com)
(The Business of Project Management - waynegoulding-blog.com)
