“Stakeholder Management” is one of those terms that could easily be removed from our project management vocabulary. The next time you hear it in conversation imagine that what was really said was “stakeholder manipulation”. Would the sentence still make sense?
People are smart. Manipulation seldom works in the long run, and especially in complicated group endeavors like most technology projects.
Stakeholder as Enemy
When did it become acceptable to have an US versus THEM attitude in regard to our stakeholders? I remember counseling a fellow project manager about a web content project he was managing. The gist of the conversation was how bad [...]
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