It's
true that life is like a game of chess. There are rules and boundaries, and a
starting position. Everybody basically starts at the same position. There are
no obvious advantages in square zero. The object (the end result) of the game
is basically the same, we all want to do a checkmate and win the game. How you
get there and how long you get there it is all up to you. Some people want to
take slow and cautious steps, established himself before making any riskier
move. Some people like to go with his instinct and just start moving around
based on how he feels. Some people like to win as quickly as possible and are
willing to pay whatever price to get there in the shortest time. That is when
you see a good chess player made a lot of sacrifices and attempt to get to
checkmate quickly.
In chess, between start and end game, there are literally millions of different
ways to do it. That is why I disagreed strongly with the belief that once you
made a wrong move, you are ruined, and that is why you want to think and think
some more before you commit to something. There are always ways to get out
whatever jam that you got yourself into, there are always solutions to a
problem. It might not be easy to find the solution but just like Ying and the
Yang, there is a problem and there got to be a solution. One does not exist
without the other.
In my limited professional experience, I have always been blessed with a good
mentor. They are good mentors not only because they could show you the right
way of approaching a problem, a lot of times they could be the best example of
exactly what not to do. Learn from a mistake is probably more valuable than
patting yourself on the back when you did something successfully. It's
important to know what you are capable of, on the other hand it's more valuable
to learn from someone else's mistakes and know exactly what you don't want to
do. Sometimes it's very hard to see the tree when you are in the forest. You
just have to step out from the shadow and look at it with a fresh perspective.
Recently I've been in a lot of different meetings. One question that keeps
popping up in my mind is "these are all talented intelligent people, why
do they have to do it the hard way." When I stepped back and look at
everybody's interactions in a distant, I began to understand why. It's
something that is hard to grasp but once you got it that everything just seem
to fall into place and whatever doesn't make sense before now all make perfect
sense. I see far too often, our project managers are trying very hard to follow
the project management framework, from their interactions, I could see that
they do not really understand why they need to follow all the good practices.
They are simply doing it because they know it's good and they don't want to
spend the time to understand why. When a project fails, they could always point
to the project management framework and said I have followed every step and you
cannot really blame me for it. The more I read about Project Management, and
reality of working in a big project has proved to me time and time again, why
PMP is worth its weight in gold. People can talk all they want about good
project management, but few actually really understand the relationship and the
dynamics between each processes and each area. It's very interesting how real
life work comes together to prove what you learn in the class or in a book is
right. The best thing is I developed a critical mind to look at problems in a
project manager's perspective. It's like having a Microscope, you see the goods
and the bads in project management so closely that I gradually gain a deeper
understanding of Project Management and human dynamic.
If you look at life like a game of chess and also as a big project that you are
managing and it's in your best interest to complete the project successfully.
They are very similar. Of course if you can actually plan everything like you
do in good project management, there is almost no chance of the project ever failing.
Just like if you can foresee every move your opponent is going to make, you can
win the game with your eyes close. Good concepts are just tools to help you;
how you get there and win it's all up to you. |
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