Winning Well: A Manager's Guide to Getting Results---Without Losing Your Soul by Karin HURT & David DYE

Author:Karin HURT & David DYE
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780814437261
Publisher: AMACOM
Published: 2016-04-14T14:00:00+00:00

DID YOU GET THE GUITAR?

Karin had promised to take pictures of her son’s last marching band performance during his senior year of high school. She raced into the parking lot, grabbed the camera, threw her high heels in the back seat, and raced down the grassy hill.

To her relief, the band was just lining up on the far side of the track surrounding the football field. The sun was beginning to set, which she knew would make for perfect lighting.

She set up the tripod, adjusted the telephoto lens, and got some great shots: the mellophones doing their sideways stunt, some up-close head shots, she even made sure she got some great ones of his friends.

She immediately went home to upload them to Photoshop for fine-tuning before he got home. As soon as he walked in the door, she proudly played him the slide show.

“Mom, did you get the guitar?”

“Huh? Ben, you play mellophone.”

“Mom, the band moves into a fantastic formation. It looks like a guitar right in time with the music. Did you get a picture of that?”

“Oh boy, no, I didn’t.” Without thinking about how it would make a great management story later, she had completely missed the big picture.

It happens on teams too.

Lisa was the project manager for a large-scale six sigma project. The phone rang; it was one of her managers, Tim. “Lisa, you know that project you asked me to look into? Well, all the milestones are on track. IT, HR, Operations, everyone has met their deliverables, but the results are still in the toilet.”

The project looked good on paper, but results weren’t moving.

The big picture was messy.

He finished with, “We have to stop thinking about this as a project. We need to step back and figure out what needs to be done.”

Tim was right.

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