We all have a unique mix of emotions. One that is becoming more prominent for me is frustration at not being able to do something positive, beyond supporting family, friends and my direct community.

Hypothesis: “The Executives and Leadership in major project based businesses, exemplified in Infrastructure and Construction, are struggling to obtain value from their organisation’s burgeoning financial, project and other operational data. This should be of concern given the increasing incidences of serious corporate performance problems.”

Executives in major project based businesses should be concerned that too many risk signals are hidden in the noise.

People are different but we are all looking for certainty about the future whilst maintaining the flexibility to do what we want in the present. We all know certainty is an illusion but we plan change as if we can guarantee a defined outcome at some set point in the future - with changes along the way to make things interesting! The flexibility we all want, to different degrees, drives a range of behaviours. Consider how different people view and use the processes and structures within organisations. Behaviours can range from people blatantly ignoring the defined ways of working through to people following the rules, and as a worst case without challenging what is obviously of little value and possibly even detrimental to delivery. I am sure we can all relate to this from our own experience.