You read about it all the time, and articles like this one , provide excellent perspective on many of the blind spots project leaders, managers and executives often have which generate friction and counter productive behaviour to the ultimate project goal of success.
The good news is that there are frameworks out there which, if you follow will increase the success rates of your projects – without a doubt. I promised a series of articles building on the broader topic of Change Management and a framework that has worked for me called the Kotter Change Model.
Yes, another dating myself move from yours truly – some of you I am sure remember the show Welcome Back Kotter , Those of you who do not, well we'll move on. The real John Kotter of course has nothing to do with this 70's TV show, but is a distinguished proffessor at Harvard Business School and recognized as a leading authority on leadership and change.
His 8 step process in approaching change management in organizations, and in this context, projects and project teams, is well entrenched in many world class corporations and I can easily see the difference it made to projects in recent years, where a lot of energy and attention was placed on applying these steps…compared to projects in the past and how they turned out, when change management was not as much of a focus area.
{Note: This article was originally posted on the 2009 Blogging Idol blog in March 2009}
