Chapter 10 The Project’s Leadership Structure

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

—circa 1914, Unknown

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

—Mother Teresa

We all know (or think we know) whom to turn to to get something done in an organization. We know who might support one idea over the next, the resisters, the people who get things done, and those who whine. We foster and grow the advantageous connections and create mitigations around the detractors. These relationships and knowledge ...

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