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Hope is NOT a Plan

Sharing how Incident Management Team Members and Project Managers can apply the nine Viking virtues of Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, and Perseverance to fieldwork and in the board room.

Project Manager application:

• Courage -> Speaking up for the end user
• Truth -> Reporting objective project status
• Honor -> Taking ownership of team mistake
• Fidelity -> Loyalty to the team's work
• Discipline -> Working a combined process
• Hospitality -> Welcome team member feedback
• Industriousness -> Innovating and iterating your style
• Self-Reliance -> Ability to work autonomously
• Perseverance -> Pushing through the dog days of the project

Stay safe, lead like a Viking and Godspeed,

Kevin

Kevin Pannell, PMP, CSM, Prosci | Host of the Hope is NOT a Plan podcast and YouTube channel | X & IG: @hopesnotaplan | https://hopesnotaplan.org

*Originally recorded and released in May 2020*