Project Management and Leadership Challenges: Respecting Diversity, Building Team Meaningfulness, and Growing to Leadership Roles (3)

Project implementation aligned with strategic advancement is a challenging endeavor, particularly in an environment of increasing complexity and productivity issues. Your prime issue is to plan for right action in right time, in right manner, and for the right purpose. Your attention determines the experience you end up with, and the experience determines the outcomes you have reached. Therefore, you must control your attention to control arriving at your desired outcomes. William James, in his book The Principles of Psychology (Vol I, 1890), wrote a simple statement, “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” The statement is highly relevant even in the 21st century for managing high productivity through “attention management.” This third volume provides areas for attention management and focuses on diversity, team building, meaningfulness, and growing to leadership, all of which are essentially required for maximizing and cultivating the real benefits with application of project management approach in business and industry.

M. Aslam Mirza, CEngr, MBA, LMG, PMP, is a speaker, author, practitioner, and trainer of project management approach for development of organizational culture and competence enhancement through support consulting and capacity building of professionals. His extensive exposure to results-driven project management stands to his credit as does his hands-on exposure to business and industry in Pakistan and abroad in varied positions includes CEO and MD of an engineering and construction company--Project Engineering Co Pvt., Ltd.--that brought him strong insights and business acumen, which are helpful for consulting and training commitments. He has been extensively involved with the Project Management Institute in the United States on research-based projects for knowledge advancement of the profession.