People's Resilience > Live Vocal Street Music in Chilli Cold NY and SAP Project Management - a Resilience Effort

Dear Readers,

I was visiting old posts and personal recordings and found this one, which my wife Paula and I have been present at back in December 2008, right in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (I am the left leather brown jacket guy talking to one of the singers).

It was a bloody cold and chili afternoon, and despite of that these gentlemen were there offering their art and hitting high notes and groovy rhythms, never loosing the "mojo" and never loosing the feeling.

Now, two years later, I recall the felling I've had there and reflect about similar situations in different environments.

I can compare this experience as a resiliency effort, singing along together and IN TUNE at a minus zero degree and very windy temperature (or a harsh environment) with some similar situations we can find managing projects and teams in global, regional or local efforts, to implement Infrastructure upgrades or even to implement ERP such as SAP.

In order to manage an SAP Implementation from the Industry perspective, or from the business perspective, we really have to be prepared to connect all the different business scenarios, from people to stakeholders, from resistant key users to resistant executives and day to day business managers, from HR to production people.

During almost one hundred percent of the projects, we will really find different levels of conflicts, key users frustrated, hard work everywhere you look, project people very tired and stakeholders asking for the every breath "faster>better>cheaper" request, as a monolith invisible phase in every project like this.

What have been called to my attention as a strong and recurring motto in Global Projects is the Resilience that heal up from some professionals and even some people inside groups.

Harsh situations and challenging environments puts people under stress, under high pressure for results and deliverables, for project timing and all sort of emotional and professional risks.

These stand point is the "most adequate weather" condition for blowing up the Resilience among the professionals assigned to an specific situation under the path and the whole critical mission of an organizational Maturation.

From the Wikipedia:

"Resilience" in psychology is the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and adversity. This coping may result in the individual “bouncing back” to a previous state of normal functioning, or using the experience of exposure to adversity to produce a “steeling effect” and function better than expected (much like an inoculation gives one the capacity to cope well with future exposure to disease).^[1] Resilience is most commonly understood as a process, and not a trait of an individual."

All in all, all these years of Global Projects and efforts made me observe some brilliant people standing up in the crowd, showing Resilience, earning respect from the comrades, outgoing on the maturity path to career growth, emotional and personal development.

Have a Happy New Year's Eve !!

Sincerely Yours,

Rodrigo Montagner

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resilience

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilience