Multidisciplinarity is key! Success sends you into the excellence trap. The reward for good work is more work of the same kind. This is true for project management as for research and eventually for all professional and academic disciplines. More of the same produces more of the same. The learning curve of continuous improvement yields on the long run only marginal returns. The challenges a mature discipline is facing will not go away. And not only for project management the crucial challenge is complexity.

Scott’s principles of observation show a way out. To any given observation, so the cybernetician and systems scientist Bernard Scott explains, there is, first, always a bigger picture, there ...

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