Spent this morning trawling over the informative words from boxes and arrows reading this article by James Kalbach titled The Art of Project Management. James is reviewing Scott Berkun’s book, (aptly titled) The Art of Project Management. James is pretty happy with the book, but the article is worth a read itself as a good summary and thinktank on Project Management itself.

This was a nice quote - I don’t know if its Scott’s or James’ handiwork.

“Leaders must develop enough trust that people will bring issues to them during crises instead of hiding them. Trust, then, is at the core of leadership.”

Certainly in my experience, many leaders in fact do the opposite - choosing to hide issues and fostering distrust among those colleagues they manage in order to keep them apparently ‘on edge’ and ‘focused’. It isn’t lost on those working under a leadership team such as this that the true reasons for these stupid methodologies are based on simple minded power games and narrow-sighted visions of their own roles within the broader company/project scope.

Unfortunately these types of leaders usually realise this at some point, then try some token gesture trying win the trust back among their "sheep” and fall painfully short, making a fool of themselves and the organisation.