PM without application ?

So, you have been in the industry for a while, and maybe even led a few projects. You want to get ahead, by demonstrating your experience and knowledge. Maybe you heard that having the PMP® credential can boost your salary as much as 10% over your non-certified peers. Or perhaps you are in between projects and want to make yourself more marketable to employers.

Whatever the reason, earning the PMP surely will help to manage a project in more standardize way. But base on my experience, there are many directors in organization fails to change the way we do things. They prefer to work with old problems that the new solutions. Same way of delivering projects that trying out new methods. Hence PMP or Prince2 is just for the sake of paper qualification.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt 

 

Choose your boss :)



Many years ago an old school Starbuck's owner partner shared an internal memo from Howard’s Il Giornale days (dated May 19, 1986) that outlined the early beginnings of Starbucks Employee First philosophy. In this vintage memo Howard writes …

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“The attitudes of managers towards their people are of primary importance. Employees should be able to trust the motives and integrity of their supervisors. It is the responsibility of management to create a protective environment where Il Giornale values flourish. We believe our employees will develop a commitment to excellence when they are directly involved in the management of their areas of responsibility. The team effort maximizes results, minimizes costs and allows our employees to have authorship and integrity in their accomplishments as well as sharing in the financial rewards of their individual and team efforts.
We believe in hiring exceptional people who are willing to work for excellent results. In exchange, we are committed to the development of our good people by identifying, cultivating, training, rewarding and promoting those individuals who are committed to moving our company forward.
Together, we can establish the [Il Giornale] difference.”



Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, his provocative and persuasive new book. The secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

So i guess it's time rethink the way we are making use of the knowledge of those with PMP's. Nowhere is this more obvious than in China, where there are 104 institutions offering project management programs. Of the 40 engineering masters degree programs in China, the project management degrees are in the highest demand, with upwards of 20,000 applications each year.

As much as the knowledge is improtant, so do the application. But the overarching need is none other that the effort of bosses to make it happen by providing the support and the environment.

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