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Dragon statue in Krakow, Poland
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Return to a Power Spot
Do you still have it, the intensity and the unshakable will to achieve more in this life? Sometimes it feels good to return to a former “power point (pun intended!)” to re-focus your energy. The following lines are based on an unused speech. They remained in the drawer for some time, from which I would dig them out again.
Faster, better, more successful ... Each time a new project is launched, it appears to be even more ambitious, more challenging, and more time-consuming than the previous one. A number of projects are even joint together and coordinated under the umbrella of a program, and so over the years I too have mutated from a simple project manager to a multinational program manager. The job expectations included the roles of an organizer, driver, and motivator – as well as a “non-giver-upper.” But what was ahead of us could only be achieved in an enormous team effort.
This time, our journey took us through an ERP system implementation in thirty-one countries, the supreme discipline of project management, as I learned from a book. The comparison with mountaineering came to mind, with each rollout into another market cluster corresponding to the climbing of yet another mountain peak. “Keep calm and cut over” was the order of the day for getting things live. In the course of the multi-year rollout, we traveled several countries, but always returned to Krakow, where we spent altogether probably more than a year. As the completion came closer, voices of sadness were heard. In the end, it all came down to one sentence: Together we succeeded!
Continue reading in the book “SO LONG – Encouraging Messages for Change Sceptics.”
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