LTYM - Standing Still

Letters to a Young Manager

Standing Still, #190
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Please note that this letter is in-process; the following are my notes

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I read recently that good project people are fundamentally different than good operational people; operational people look to do the same job well and perhaps better, but project people do work that changes the job from A to B; so the change management (and related psychology) you both point to are indeed part of the job. Our business-side people are not project or process thinkers; in fact, I’ve seen that these are foreign modes of thinking to most of our workers at Save, which coupled with a triage environment, may account for the great resistantance to change we often encounter. But not changing is not an option, nonprofit status notwithstanding. A pithy comment I noted in my growing management stories: those who stand still are the ones who get hit by the train .

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Those who stand still are the ones who get hit by the train

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