Tag: part-time project manager

Knowledge workers lie at the heart of many businesses. They have high degrees of experience, expertise, as well as education. Their jobs mostly involve the application, distribution, and creation of knowledge. But, when someone’s line of work requires them to “think for a living,” they cannot simply apply the same techniques used for managing more stable, tangible, and predictable projects to new, unfamiliar, and intangible environments they often find themselves in. When we don’t have physical reference points, difficulties arise. Then, following the “plan the work, work the plan” motto becomes...