This sort of career is best approached as a set of projects in which we apply the lessons we have learned from previous jobs, companies and industries while developing ourselves for our next career move, often not known in advance. They will be, effectively, managing a portfolio of projects.
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We both believe that this trend will accelerate and that professional careers will become a sequence of projects. The author calls it project management I would call it entrepreneurship or gig economy. That is 1 in 6 of the total Dutch labour market. In Holland, the revenue commissioners only defined “freelancers” in the 80s.Almost 50% of people in the UK want to start their own business. There are 1.4 million British freelancers working across all sectors.A 2015 survey of over 1,000 American workers noted that about 60% received 25% or more of their income from freelance work. Intuit estimates that this proportion will grow to some 40% by 2020. In the USA the number of freelancers is 53 million.Below is from a blog I wrote a while ago about the gig economy. Those are millions of projects requiring millions of project managers per year.
And the value of economic activity worldwide that is project-oriented will grow from $12 trillion (in 2013) to $20 trillion (forecast 2027). Projects make impossible dreams possible.Īccording to recent research, the number of individuals working in project-based roles will increase from 66 million (in 2017) to 88 million (forecast 2027). All these were the result of ideas being turned into reality. For example, Singapore, Dubai, the iPhone, the great wall of China, the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, the introduction of the Euro or the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
But without projects, nothing would happen. I associate project management with technical and boring Excel sheets, time planning, deadlines, to-do lists and engineers. He is also involved with the PMI at various levels, including as the initiator of the Brightline initiative, helping executives bridge the expensive and unproductive gap between strategy design and delivery. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is one of the leading thinkers around project managers.
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Hence “The Project Revolution: How to Succeed in a Project-Driven World (The Project Economy)” by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez. When Sunil Prahsara, the CEO starts to refer to the project economy as the next big wave in work and business, you better read up on the project economy. When you work with the PMI, you better read up on project management.
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