Intelligent Disobedience: The Difference Between Good & Great Project Managers | November Chapter Event & 2024 AGM
OVERVIEW
Obeying all of the rules rarely generates breakthrough performance because it does not generate innovative approaches. Breaking the rules randomly doesn’t work either. This is where intelligent disobedience comes in: knowing when and how to break, bend, or invent new rules for better outcomes. Espousing a higher form of ethics, intelligent disobedience seeks to surface hidden truth and produce actions of higher integrity to yield superior results.
Intelligent Disobedience involves successfully countering the directions of management. This includes challenging, pushing back, and making suggestions to management that defend the integrity of your initiatives or department objectives, potentially against the expectations of a stakeholder. Like the seeing-eye dog program that embraces intelligent disobedience to train their dogs to protect and ensure the safety of their masters, organisational leaders need to know how to “disobey their masters” to "save the business.”
TAKEAWAYS
Define intelligent disobediene in a project context
Discuss the challenges of engaging in intelligent disobedience
Examine the foundations of intelligent disobedience in the project world: risk, authenticity and ethics
Explore a decision making process for when to engage in intelligent disobedience
SPEAKER
Bob McGannon is the co-founder and director of Intelligent Disobedience Leadership Pty Ltd. He specialises in advanced leadership techniques, entrepreneurship, and strategic project and portfolio management. Bob has over 20 courses on LinkedIn Learning and coaches inexperienced to advanced business leaders from more than 15 countries with a wide variety of industry backgrounds. Bob has over 30 years of I/T, project management, business analysis, and operational leadership experience, 18 of those years as a manager in the IBM Corporation. Bob is a certified Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute, was a certified Executive Project Manager with IBM, and a Certified Project Management Coach for the Boeing Aircraft Corporation. So, at least three organisations have determined that Bob is certifiable!
Connect with the speaker
www.intelligentdisobedience.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmcgannon/
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Event agenda:
05.30 - 05.45pm | Open / Networking
05.45 - 06.00pm | Welcome
06.00 - 07:00pm | Presentation+Q&A
07:00 - 07:15pm | Announcement & Close
07:15 PM | AGM Setup
07:30 Onwards | AGM for PMIQ Members Only
Event Type: Hybrid | You can attend this event in person or join us via the link included in the Registration Confirmation email.
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