Why Project Managers are set to be the smartest people in the room.
When I was at school I guess the “big careers” we aspired to be were Doctors, Lawyers and Accountants, I must admit when I was young I too aspired to these wonderful careers. In fact, I’m sure at one stage I wanted to be all three at the same time!
Whilst there’s nothing wrong with these paths at all, and of course let’s face it I can’t see a time when we’ll ever not need these clever men and women. However, we’ve started to embark upon an unprecedented age – an age where businesses will need to be constantly reinventing themselves to stay one step ahead of the competition. Actually, more precisely, an age where “it’s OK” for businesses to do this without compromising its values.
Of course, this is already happening. My take is that the frequency of this will accelerate and all sorts of businesses will routinely use “change” as another item in their toolbox to get ahead.
The word “change” is now being adopted into business speak. Rightly so I say. I can see a time soon where there’ll be a massive cachet associated with good people that can manage a change project smoothly. All we need then is a hit TV drama series all about Project Managers working on amazing change agendas in the field. I’ll put my name forward for the lead role..!