14 August 2009

Should Project Managers Lead Business Change?

An interesting thought occurred to me while reading an article posted on Relationship Economy dot com.

It asks the question about whether social media users gathering followers are leaders themselves or just followers and are those gatherers really extraordinary people?

It made me think about how this applies to project managers. Good project managers will gather followers and, of course, they will lead the good fight to create "a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen".

And is that not what projects are all about? A project should be managed by a leader, someone who will set the course and chart the path to success. The final quote that struck me in that article was "followers will take you where they’ve been while leaders will take you where they are going". How apt for project managers.

The whole article can be read here at this link : Relationship Economy