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The Project Operator

I'm helping engineers become highly effective project managers. I write about hard and soft skills for engineering project managers and the mindset shift required to transition from successful engineer to successful project manager.

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Avoiding the Urgency Trap

The Project Operator Urgent? Why?And for who? Read time: 3 minutes I recently covered a project for a colleague who took a 3-month sabbatical. It was a long enough time for me to need get fully immersed in the project, and not just “tide-it-over” like I would do for a 1 week vacation cover. I started to get project emails. And I noticed something interesting. Out of 250 emails I received that week for that project, 132 were sent with High Priority, and a further 57 with some variation of...