The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass

Screw-up#6The Team Didn't Gel

I played the drums as a kid starting in fourth grade up into college. My family suffered through many hours (and headaches) of me beating the skins to jazz, funk, and rock music. When I started playing with the school band, I had to learn that making music wasn't about how fast I could do flam-a-diddles or how loud I could play, but how I played in relation to the other band members. If the music called for adagio (slow & leisurely pace) it would be a bad idea to break into an "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" drum solo while everyone else is playing elevator music. The important thing was to match my playing to the other instrumentalists and to make beautiful music together. While I never got to rock stardom with my own entourage ...