Chapter 4 A Model for Engaged Executive Sponsors
One factor that marked every failure—“We hadn’t had a volunteer champion on the project.”
—Anonymous executive at Texas Instrumentsi
Accountability breeds response-ability.
—Stephen Covey
Make yourself accountable and your employees will hold themselves to a high standard.
—David J. Greer
Over the past thirty years, the most common complaint I have heard from project managers is, “My sponsor is not engaged.” In the early years of being a project manager, I had the same experience and assumed that this was the industry norm. By the early 2000s, I started looking at sponsors skeptically as an unnecessary ...
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