ABSTRACT
As a person gains experience and knowledge in what and how a process works, a by-product is that they can see barriers, problems, and bottlenecks well into the future before they become large; this is called being proactive. It would be easy to step in and immediately demand changes on a project to make it right, which goes against one of Jack Welch’s leadership points of managing less. Jumping in and taking over immediately on a failure can be damaging to a project and its members. Just like the philosophy that new management needs to spend time to understand the company and systems before making any changes, the same thing is true of projects. What makes projects so much fun is that each one is very unique because of requirements, design, cost, and resources. Until time is spent understanding what is not working and why it’s not, it’s only a guess that the changes being made are going to make the situation better.
