Awe & the PM

Projects can suffer significant losses even when governance, management processes, and technical capabilities appear adequate.

A new area of behavioural science that shows significant potential to lift project management performance is the emotion of awe.

Awe is the feeling we experience when we are in the presence of something vast and mysterious that transcends our understanding of the world. It can be the everyday-awe of dew-drops on a leaf, the more intense awe of watching the sun set from a mountain top, or the mystical awe of a spiritual experience.

Awe has been found to decrease ego, increase interpersonal connection, increase pro-sociality (collaboration), decrease stress, create more rigorous thinking, and increase our sense of meaning, effects that significantly decrease project risks and improve project success rates.

Click here for a free copy of the White Paper Awe and the Project Manager – Take a walk in a forest on Sunday and be a better project manager on Monday.

Click here to go to the web-site for a new book coming soon on the science and historical spirituality of awe: 
Messages From a Quiet Land – Revelations of the Divine In Awe, Silence, and Science

For a summary of the book, a list of the book’s endorsements, to pre-order the book, or to request a talk for your team or a  conference, please visit the Quiet Messages website at www.quietmessages.com