Addressing the legacy of generation “W” (wise), part 2

This blog article is part of series of interviews of persons that have shaped the life of International Project Management Association during the past 50 years. Interview with Mr. Klaus Pannenbäcker, Honorary Fellow of IPMA, former IPMA President and former President of the Gesellschaft fuer Project Management, the German member association of IPMA , Nürnberg […]

Smart Reasons Why You Should Start Volunteering Today

The world is governed by people who manage people. In a world where everything is moving towards automatization, those who know how to understand people and make friends will benefit. Volunteering is the most humanistic and easiest way to obtain new knowledge about people and make useful contacts in order to build your personal community. […]

Addressing the legacy of generation “W” (wise)

This blog article is part of a series of interviews with persons that have shaped the life of the International Project Management Association during the past 50 years. Interview with Dr Morten Fangel, Honorary Fellow of IPMA, former IPMA President and former President of the Danish Project Management Association, Copenhagen 20.07.2019 (by Amin Saidoun) How […]

Fast-food content of social media: How to transform it from fashionable to functional?

Social media is driving new norms of living and language. The use of terms in social media conversations such as ‘IDK, ‘SMHID’, ‘DMOT’ ‘IMHO’ and ‘YOLO’ (just to mention a few) may make the conversation sound like a short messaging exchange from a scene in a blockbuster movie thriller, but it is not. These just […]

Projects and project management in Egypt

Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. The country is bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to […]

Project Leadership: The game changer in large scale complex projects

A new report on Project Leadership, published by the International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM) and the John Grill Centre for Project Leadership at the University of Sydney, emphasises the fact that “the game changer in large scale complex projects is the leaders’ ability to see projects not just as assets or systems but […]

Liquid times, liquid organisations and liquid life pursuits

Recently, I came across Zygmunt Bauman´s brilliant writings on liquid modernity, for example in “Liquid Times – Living in an Age of Uncertainty”. In this book he describes how the change from »solid« to »liquid« modernity has created a pretty new and unprecedented setting for individuals, organisations and society with a series of challenges never […]

Project management change path 2020 to 2025

Smart phones dependent lives, thinking machines replacing humans at the workplaces, social media-based societies and fast-paced technological penetration in day-to-day living are just the tip of the iceberg examples of irreversible changes that human civilization is going through currently.  These changes are redefining behaviors and professional norms. Like other professions, project management needs to respond […]

Self-organisation – a new paradigm for project-oriented work (2)

This is the second of a series of blogposts on self-organisation in the context of projects. The topic was discussed in depth last weekend in a think tank on “rethinking projects”, which will prepare the topic fundamentally and then discuss it in greater detail at the IPMA research conference in autumn 2020. This time I […]

Do we need to consider a »Theory Z« for millennials?

In 1960, Douglas McGregor published his famous book “The Human Side of Enterprise”, which had a significant impact on the way we see organisations, management and human engagement in enterprises. In this book, Douglas McGregor identified an approach of creating environments within which employees are motivated via authoritative direction and control or integration and self-control, […]