Morning Motivator – Are You Seeking Building a Project or Process?

"We can't expect the people behind us to want to continue what we started."
- Anonymous

I have always been FASCINATED by "project management." This is the idea that you have a SINGLE, ONE TIME set of tasks that must be completed within a budget and time frame. Project management, to me, does not sound like a business process, rather a single FOCUSED set of efforts…

Have you ever met a REALLY good project manager? Have you ever asked them about their SUCCESS?

In a recent discussion with a project manager I admire, he spoke about PROCESSES, CHECKLISTS, and REPLICATION. He never once spoke about TASKS, PROJECTS or ISOLATED EFFORTS. He runs his projects through a PROCESS… a business process. The same, simple, base processes with the flexibility for CUSTOMIZATION, which is the "special recipe" to SUCCESSFUL project management.

2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP:
In DECIDING to take on a "project or initiative," is it FAIR to expect that people after you will seek to CONTINUE your system? Likely not.

In EXECUTING your "project or initiative," is it INTELLIGENT and INSIGHTFUL to build the system in a manner that it can be REPLICATED and PERPETUATED? Sure it is.

If you are as INTELLIGENT, DYNAMIC and RESOURCEFUL as you know you are – you should EXPECT that others will seek an opportunity to continue your efforts. If you build the SYSTEM in a way that ALLOWS them the opportunity to continue, then you have provided the BEST solution possible.

A SOLUTION that allows others to CHOOSE whether or not to continue should ALWAYS be your goal… as opposed to a PROJECT – which is done, when you are.

Cheers,
Zach

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