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The Blind Men and the Elephant Mastering Project Work

If you work, you probably manage projects every day-even if "project manager" isn't in your official title-and you know how frustrating the experience can be. Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor, David Schmaltz brilliantly identifies the true root cause of the difficulties in project work: "incoherence" (the inability of a group of people to make common meaning from their common experience). Schmaltz exposes such oft-cited difficulties as poor planning, weak leadership, and fickle customers as poor excuses for project failure, pr.

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  • "Mastering project work"
  • "Maestría en la gestión de proyectos"@es

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  • "If you work, you probably manage projects every day-even if "project manager" isn't in your official title-and you know how frustrating the experience can be. Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor, David Schmaltz brilliantly identifies the true root cause of the difficulties in project work: "incoherence" (the inability of a group of people to make common meaning from their common experience). Schmaltz exposes such oft-cited difficulties as poor planning, weak leadership, and fickle customers as poor excuses for project failure, pr."@en
  • "Using a familiar metaphor, the creator of True North's Mastering Projects Workshop and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Sun Workshop shows readers how anyone can transform a fuzzy project assignment into a meaningful, satisfying experience."

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Folklore"

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  • "De blinden en de olifant : projectwerk in de praktijk : hoe u vage verantwoordelijkheden kunt veranderen in zinvolle resultaten"
  • "Fábula de los seis ciegos y el elefante o la maestría en la gestión de proyectos"@es
  • "Fábula de los siete ciegos y el elefante o La maestría en la gestión de proyectos"@es
  • "瞎子也能摸大象"
  • "Fábula de los seis ciegos y el elefante ó la maestría en la gestión de proyectos"@es
  • "Fábula de los seis ciegos y el elefante ó la maestría en la gestión de proyectos"
  • "The blind men and the elephant : mastering project work"
  • "The blind men and the elephant : mastering project work : how to transform fuzzy responsibilities into meaningful results"
  • "Xia zi ye neng mo da xiang"
  • "The blind men and the elephant mastering project work : how to transform fuzzy responsibilities into meaningful results"
  • "Fábula de los seis ciegos y el elefante, ó, la maestría en la gestión de proyectos"@es
  • "The Blind Men and the Elephant Mastering Project Work"@en
  • "The blind men and the elephant"

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