Joshua Cooper Ramo’s The Age of the Unthinkable is geared towards international relations, but its lessons can easily be adapted to modern life as a whole. He suggests a revolutionary new way of thinking that is both challenging and effective.
When working on a really big project, it is very easy to run into trouble with unanticipated issues or for team members to lose sight of the overall goal. To combat this, we take some time during the project planning phase to identify some “mini projects” that we will run along the way.
Managing a project is then managing a collection of ever-shifting risks and demands. We must continue to reassess priorities during the course of a project and remain flexible enough to adapt to new realities.
Three things that stood out to me from this classic.