This document discusses how to create a complementary project management team by understanding different management styles and personas. It describes four common personas - producer, administrator, entrepreneur, and integrator - and how they each have different orientations and strengths. The document also discusses how the managerial role is too complex for one individual and that a team is needed to balance the different styles. It provides characteristics of good managers and suggests understanding one's own strengths and weaknesses to find the right blend of styles.

1. HOW TO CREATE
A
COMPLEMENTARY
TEAM AND FIND
A BLISS?
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2. • Programming for PDP11 in 80’s
• Novell admin, PM in telco
• CIO in retail
• Consultant, trainer
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3. WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
PROJECT MANAGER = LEADER

4. PROJECT MANAGER
=
PERFECT MANAGER
?

5. 4 PERSONAS
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious.All characters appearing in this work are fictitious.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

6. PRODUCER
• Bachelor in Computer Sciences
• Knows at least 3 Programming languages
• Promoted to PM because success in
technical lead role
• Creates tools, automates processes
• Extreme side - «The Lone Ranger»
• Works very hard, FISH (First In, Still Here)
• «YES» = «YES», «NO» = «NO»
• Does not train, does not delegate
• «WHAT?» oriented
• Busy solving today’s problems
• The Peter Principle «We promote people to
the level of their incompetence» is about him

7. 4 PERSONAS

8. ADMINISTRATOR
• In charge of Release and Testing Process
• Loves Processes and Documentation
• In and out on time
• Desk clean, Manages «by the book»
• Extreme side - «Bureaucrat»
• Silence = «NO!»
• Typical answer: «NO!» = «MAYBE»
• «HOW?» oriented
• Focus on what Should be done
• Would rather do wrong things right
than the right things wrong
• - Did you had any language barriers?
- No, they did!

9. 4 PERSONAS

10. ENTREPRENEUR
• Contributor, innovator
• Often changes direction and priorities
• No fixed time for meeting, coming & going
• No agenda, does all the talking
• Likes to see much activity, rushing, crisis
• Overloads subordinates
• Extreme side - «Arsonist»
• Silence = «YES!»
• Typical answer: «YES!» = «MAYBE»
• «WHY-NOT?» oriented
• Little appreciation for time, scope, budget
• Is first to propose Agile, DevOps, Lean etc
• Potential «Teacher»

11. 4 PERSONAS

12. INTEGRATOR
• Integrity – a must for good Leader to have
• Compromising
• Listens well
• Sensitive to power play
• Spends his life in meetings, everyone talks
• Extreme side - «Super Follower»
• Typical answer: «Yes/No» = «MAYBE»
• «WHO?» oriented
• Potential «Good Right hand or Shepherd»
• «I don’t know the way to success, but the
key to failure is trying to please everybody»
Bill Cosby

13. MANAGEMENT STYLES (PAEI)
RESULTSPROCEDURES,
SYSTEMS
MOTIVATION,
CO-OPERATION
CREATIVITY,
CONTINUITY
WHAT?HOW?
WHY-NOT?WHO?

14. MISMANAGERS, MANAGERS
AND LEADERS

15. CONFLICT OF STYLES

16. 9 CHARACTERISTICS
OF GOOD MANAGERS
1. Self-aware
2. Conscious
3. Well-rounded (no zeros in PAEI code)
4. Knows strenghts and weaknesses; know his uniqueness
5. Accepts strenghts, weaknesses, and uniqueness
6. Can identify excellence and weaknesses in others
7. Can accept and appreciate differences in others
8. Knows how to slow down and relax
9. Creates a learning environment, in which conflicts can be
resolved, by both commanding and granting mutual trust and
respect
Source: Ichak Adizes, «The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What to Do about It»

17. HOW TO FIND A BLISS?

18. Dr. Ichak Adizes, world's leading expert on improving the performance of business
and government through fundamental change
MANAGERIAL JOB IS FAR TOO COMPLICATED
FOR ANY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL TO DO...
WE NEED A COMPLEMENTARY TEAM.

19. READING

20. CREDITS
1. Ichak Adizes, «Mastering Change (The Power of Mutual Trust and
Respect)»
2. Ichak Adizes, «The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and
What to Do about It»
3. Ichak Adizes, «Management and Mismanagement Styles»
4. Ichak Adizes, «Managing Corporate Lifecycles»
5. Blog, Leveraging 3 Primary Management Styles,
http://corporatestrategiesbyskillpath.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/leverag
6. PAEI Project, http://paei.wikidot.com/adizes-methodology
7. Picture, http://www.pinterest.com/pin/345299496400794458/
8. Picture, http://f.pmo.ee/o/2014/11/13/3518977t1h5536.jpg
9. Picture, http://www.management.com.ua/events/adizes_2013-5.jpg
10. YouTube video «Adizes: What is a Leader»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SF0xSr5wW4

21. CONTACTS
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