Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/A7Kni6c The Blind Men and the Elephant By: Schmaltz, David Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Print ISBN: 9781576752531, 1576752534 eText ISBN: CSM19781576752531 Copyright year: 2003 Format: PDF Available from $ 14.92 USD SKU CSM19781576752531R90 If you work, you probably manage projects every day-even if 'project manager' isn't in your official title-and you know how frustrating the experience can be. Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor, David Schmaltz brilliantly identifies the true root cause of the difficulties in project work: 'incoherence' (the inability of a group of people to make common meaning from their common experience). Schmaltz exposes such oft-cited difficulties as poor planning, weak leadership, and fickle customers as poor excuses for project failure, providing a set of simple, project coherence-building techniques that anyone can use to achieve success. He explains how 'wickedness' develops when a team over-relies on their leader for guidance rather than tapping their true source of power and authority-the individual. The Blind Men and the Elephant explores just how much influence is completely within each individual's control. Using real-world stories, Schmaltz undermines the excuses that may be keeping you trapped in meaningless work, offering practical guidance for overcoming the inevitable difficulties of project work. Additional ISBNs CSM19781576752531
