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Four Maps for Leaders |
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Leaders need to rediscover a powerful skill – mapmaking. Maps affect the judgements we make, the decisions we take, and the actions we carry forward. They take a physical form on paper, screen, or scratched in the dirt, or in our minds moulded by experience and culture. In combination they give us our personal interpretation of the state-of-affairs of the world in which we live. Leaders are strengthened by skills that give them mastery of forces that influence the shape and configuration of the maps people carry in their heads, and the ability to design complementary physical maps that make things explicit, and coherent. The result is people working together efficiently and effectively to a common purpose. Four maps from the past reveal the weaknesses in our mapmaking, and the lessons we have forgotten, which have contributed to the consistent problems of projects that are late, or over budget, or fail to deliver what was promised.
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