“Every single person in the organization should understand the language of something (…), a leader should understand the language of project management, so they understand the foibles of it and the inspiration of it when they are assigning it to a project manager.”
In this episode, Jerome and Julienne talk to Kory Kogon. She is FranklinCovey’s Vice President of Content and Senior Consultant. She’s the Wall Street Journal bestselling co-author of The Five Choices, the Path to Extraordinary Productivity, and has appeared as an expert on today, MSNBC’s your business, forbes.com inc.com, and on fast company.com. An updated version of her book ‘Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager’ was published recently, and in this podcast they discuss the book and some of the project management principles mentioned in it. They talk about the importance of everyone knowing the ‘why’ behind a project, listening to each other, and navigating projects from both a leadership and project manager perspective.
Listen to this episode to learn about effective project management, the importance of listening in a project management context, and the value of having permission to fail.
Notes
*Learn more about Kory’s new book here
*Find Kory Kogon on LinkedIn
