The blind men and the elephant mastering project work : how to transform fuzzy responsibilities into meaningful results
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 brillian...
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San Francisco :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
c2003.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface: Naive Beginnings
- 1: The Blind Men
- "The Blind Men and the Elephant"
- Challenging Our Certainty
- Confusing Ourselves
- Choosing more Appropriate Frames of Reference
- A Different Set of Possibilities
- 2: The Elephant
- An Elephant We Cannot See
- Masters and Slaves
- Fragmenting along Predictable Lines
- Disclosing Our Delusion
- Liberating Ourselves
- "That each by Observation Might Satisfy His Mind"
- 3: The Wall
- Festina Lente-Hasten Slowly
- Meeting My Wall (Again)
- Discovering what I Want
- Juiciness
- "God Bless Me! but the Elephant is Very Like a Wall!"
- 4: The Spear
- The Tale of a Very Bad Soldier
- Monitoring My Metaphors
- "To Me 'Tis Mighty Clear, this Wonder of an Elephant is Very Like a Spear!"
- 5: The Snake
- Who's Here with You?
- Trusting Snakes
- Sorry Sort of Safety
- Snake Hunting
- Tit for Tat
- How Badly do You Want Them to Win?
- "I See," Quoth He, "The Elephant is Very Like a Snake!"
- 6: The Tree
- "101 Reasons Why I Can't Plan Yet"
- "I Think that I will Never See …"
- There's No Such Thing as a Project
- Unavoidable Blind Spots
- Imposing Disorganization
- How Work Really Gets Done
- Central Organizing Principle
- "'Tis Clear Enough the Elephant is Very Like a Tree!"
- 7: The Fan
- No One is Apathetic Except in Pursuit of Someone Else's Goal
- Fanning the Flame or Stirring the Breeze?
- Three-Part Conversation
- Creating a Village Idiot
- "Deny the Fact who Can, this Marvel of an Elephant is Very Like a Fan!"
- 8: The Rope
- Will Rogers was an Artist with a Rope
- Sitting Comfortably
- Just Like the Real World
- Coherence Emerges
- Encouraging Coherence
- "I See," Quoth He, "The Elephant is Very Like a Rope!"
- 9: Theologic Wars
- A Heretic's Homecoming.
- "And Prate about an Elephant not One of Them has Seen!"
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
