Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, Project Meeting Reporting. Part one. Here we go. You'd say that a manager tools and career tools, we love projects.

Yeah, totally. Right? And it's not not surprising I mean effective managers are really good at

managing projects right projects provide a focus and attention on things where they're often not regular responsibilities, right?

They're different.

Yeah.

Okay, so we're not saying that projects are more important per se.

I mean, yeah, I mean we do think that more important stuff get put into project format though, right?

I mean, yeah, that's kind of typical.

But nevertheless, in the modern kind of less formal organizations, projects are going to be the how more and more work

and particularly important work is done.

Yeah, yeah and you know we like projects because they're prevalent

because they work if you can manage them.

It's not hard to know how to manage them.

It is different than most routine work. There is certainly a better body of knowledge about it.

We disagree with some of that body knowledge but for the most part there's a healthy

discussion to its credit led by the IT and software development world because they

started bringing projects that were very complex and long-term and

multi-dependencies and so on down to the lowest levels of the organization.

It used to be these kinds of projects that had thousands of tasks

and took a year or 18 months,

only happened at the top of the organization.

And the people that actually did the work were very far removed for them but that's not true anymore.

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