Starting to think I should be posting to a very different blog with titles like this and the last one! Anyway, those of your who are members of the LinkedIn PMI UK Chapter Group may have spotted my discussion on Passion. So it's also found itself on to here now! It's a pet subject of mine and I'm keen to encourage debate as to it's place in the pecking order of project management success.
Consider this - there are 2 teams, team A is passionate, driven, bags of energy, a will to suceed, but young and inexperienced. Team B ? well on paper it's a no brainer, experienced, focused and hold every accreditation known to man - they are however, battle scarred and burnt out. So which is it? Youth and excuberance (=passion?) or experience. If it were a choice... is it A or B? What would you do? A fascinating experiment awaits us....
I personally feel inexperienced young projects perform better than experienced burnt out project managers.Young blood is risk taking and ready to try new things rather than old ones.
Posted by: sathyasri | 01/16/2010 at 11:33 PM
Passion is definitely a big bonus for any PM. The previous comment is not true; I know some people of 80 who have more passion than teenagers. Passion has nothing to do with age & everything to do with personality.
Posted by: Chris | 04/01/2010 at 03:20 PM