59 DON’T BE AFRAID TO SUGGEST THEY PULL THE PLUG
The average large company, running around 150 projects at any one time, loses £13 million a year by not stopping projects that are failing.100 Suggesting your project is scrapped can be a difficult message to give your sponsor and stakeholders. However, the project manager’s role is to partly direct the work and partly to provide an objective position on how the work is done and if that means suggesting stopping everything and starting again, or even not starting again, then that is part of your role too.
SECURING A GOOD RESULT
A junior manager working in the security industry was called in to ...
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