CHAPTER 6

The Future Anchors

I have tried to give a guided tour to the realities of our individual professional life. Our professionalism is anchored in a profession, in my case project management, and, from thereon, is a mixed bungle of experiences, technical skills, work contexts, change, problems, balances, cooperation and competition, failure, learning and knowledge, logic, innovations, rationality, success and motivation, empathy, power and conflicts, constraints and creativity, time, happiness, and maturing.

It should be clear by now that our technical skills are only but one of several skills we need to acquire to become good project managers and good professionals. The experience and context matrix provide a mental model for other equally ...

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