CHAPTER 3
Working with Challenging Sponsors
You will not get the perfect project sponsor, and you shouldn’t expect to. The reality, which is also true of every team member and every other stakeholder—and of you, if you are completely honest—is that you will get what you get, and you will have to adapt your style, approach, and management technique accordingly.
Think of working with a sponsor in the same terms as you might your project team. It is a truly lucky project manager who gets exactly the project team that he wants; the likelihood is that what you get will be a compromise of some sort. You wanted Jill, but she wasn’t available at the time, ...
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