The elite runners take off when the gun fires. What happens to those back in the pack?
An IT initiative is a project with the added difference that it has tons of abstraction that require skilled teamwork and collaboration to deliver. Senior business leaders often underestimate how much they own to lead their project team through this challenge. Yet they are the ones with the business knowledge and the means to remove obstacles encountered by those stuck in the pack.
This post discusses three mistakes business leaders make and what they should do to address them — using the analogy of the recently-held Chicago Marathon.
For more on the topic of business sponsorship, see Time Magazine’s coverage of my post on cioupdate.com. Here’s the setup.