Leadership, partnership, project, and business success happen at the Program level, not the Project level. Very few peoples' fortunes or successes are made on single projects but rather through well planned strategy and well considered tactical execution. If you want to "win it big" on a big project, go out and buy yourself a lottery ticket instead; save yourself the headache.
If on the other hand you are serious about turning around your business and are not sure how to do it, think twice before you go out and hire someone to "do a project for you". Instead, hire a program manager or "true consultant" and invest for THE LONG HAUL in someone who can understand your business and professional needs OVERALL and help you transform your business into what you want it to be.
Projects are temporary endeavors and necessarily have an end. Programs do not necessarily have an end; and their purpose IS sustainability, which is VERY DIFFERENT from the purpose of projects. The purpose of projects is to "have an impact" or "kick major booty" but these things are not sustainable or reasonable by themselves. There has to be a plan!
Management can't be careless or wild in today's complex, competitive environments. No project can deliver successfully without having something like a Program Office or support organization who can "catch it" and its results and maintain the things that it did or didn't deliver. Nothing in our universe is standalone, atomic, or unaffected by outside forces, projects included. They are not atomic and cannot be treated so; they must be treated as a program or portfolio.
People who shoot for big results through one-off projects are the true entrepreneurs and risk-takers of our era, and probably stupidly so.
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