Project Managers' Biggest Fear

Many of us may say that a Project Manager's biggest fear is failure of a project. Others may come up with ideas of delay or team tussles. However the biggest fear of a project management is the fear to delegate. Delegate is a key to success of many project managers and also a path towards failure.

Project managers fear delegating considering, only they can do the said job in perfect manner, the other will not be able to do with perfection and may be other won't do the way it should be done. These three simple fears have three simple solutions. Find team members who are better than you. This fact is highlighted by Guy Kawasaki (#SVBCEO) in his speech about, '12 Lessons I learned from Steve Jobs'. Secondly train your team members, invest in them prepare them to perform better and lastly tell them clearly how a certain activity is to be done.

Project Manager's Tool

Being a Project Manager (PM) is sometimes taken as being Prime Minister (PM). Unfortunately regardless of team it is generally Project Manager blamed for any failure of a project. This makes him or her to stay on toes!

While worrying about success of a certain project the PM becomes jackal of all. He/she tries to do each and every activity and take role of every team member. Any project manager who finishes any project with this approach successfully is indeed not a project manager or simply not a manager even!

There could be many tools a PM can use to make situation better and D3* is one of them. It implies- Decide, Delegate, Do.

A PM must Decide what is to be done in project as clearly as possible, then he/she must Delegate the work to team members (most rare skill among PMs) and finally Do what he/she has to do i.e. Manage!

* https://www.createspace.com/3492429