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The Shrinking Project Manager Insights from Psychology for Project Success. Rashid N Kapadia PMP PMI-H April 9, 2013 Stracks Farm: April 10, 2013 HESS Club. You Don’t Have To Be HAPPY T o Work Here … But It Helps!!. Big Idea # 1. Organizations Don’t Get Things Done. Plans
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The Shrinking Project ManagerInsights from Psychology for Project Success Rashid N Kapadia PMP PMI-H April 9, 2013 Stracks Farm: April 10, 2013 HESS Club
You Don’t Have To Be HAPPYTo Work Here … But It Helps!! Big Idea # 1
Organizations Don’t Get Things Done
Plans Don’t Get Things Done
Projects Don’t Get Things Done
ONLY People Get Things Done
Big Idea # 2 … Getting Things Done ? Happiness HELPSPeople This is Biology Unhappiness HINDERS People
PM Knowledge Areas • Stakeholder Management • Monitoring and Controlling
Pleasure / Positive Emotions • Greater activity in left pre-frontal cortex
Pleasure / Positive Emotions • Orderly heart wave patterns
Pleasure / Positive Emotions • More neurotransmitters • Dopamine • Endorphin • Oxytocin • Serotonin
This is Biology Happiness is both: A state of mind A state of body In Our Brains: More than 100,000 chemical reactions / second
Flow • Loss of sense of time • Loss of sense of self • Experienced more @ work • Associated with the acquisition of mastery & expertise • Relatively unrecognized as source of happiness
Passion / Engagement / Flow Flow Channel current challenges exceed current skills…. but not by too much
Flow • Experienced more @ work • Associated with the acquisition of mastery & expertise • Relatively unrecognized as source of happiness
Martin Seligman Options Trader Story
Purpose It is not about me It is about someone or something that is outside of me
HAPPINESSAristotle Eudemonia (Greek ) = Happiness better translation Human Flourishing
HAPPINESSMatthieuRicard Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. It is more than a mere pleasant feeling, emotion or mood. It is an optimal state of being
HAPPINESSShawn ACHOR The experience of positive emotions, combined with deeper feelings of meaning & purpose Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential
You Don’t Have To Be HAPPYTo Work Here … But It Helps!! Big Idea # 1
You Don’t Have To Bring HUMAN FLOURISHINGTo Work Here … But It Helps!!!
Robust Finding Outliers Exceptionally happy people have excellent social relationships
Robust Finding Countless Studies: Social Relationships = Best guarantee Prescription for high performance Heightened well being Lowered stress
Copernican Inversion Nicolaus Copernicus