Page 64 - Straight Talk On Project Management IV

6 - Stay Calm

I recall Stokes and Butler coming out to bat to a tumultuous Lord's roar! They stayed calm hitting
two boundaries on their way to posting 15-0 from their six balls. Under such pressure how easy
would it be to lose your head? Under the scrutiny of the c-suite, the clamour for transparency from
stakeholders, the pressure for successful delivery, how easy is it for us to lose ours?
I remember, early in my career, a project manager having a full-on nervous breakdown over his IT
project, I vowed then that none of this was worth shortening your life for. Panic makes terrible
choices!

So that's it really! It's all about having that special something extra in your locker. Stokes has it.
Djokovic has it. Morgan has it. YOU TOTALLY HAVE IT!