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These photos are courtesy of the participants from the Training of Facilitators which was conducted at the Pilgrimage Village Hotel in Hue, Vietnam on 12-21 May 2009. The slideshow was prepared by Duong Quy Do, who is also one of the participants.
These photos were taken from the Training of Facilitators which was conducted at the Shanghai National Accounting Institute last 9 to 17 June 2009 with thirty nine (39) participants.
Photos were snapped during the TOF for Results-focused Project Design and Management that was held in the Pilgrimage Village Hotel in Hue, Vietnam from May 12-20, 2009. Participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Laos, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Singapore, and a host of project managers from the Vietnam government joined in.
INSEAD’s brief interview with Harvard’s Morten Hansen who disputed the common belief that collaboration is essential for successful strategy (and projects, likewise) execution. While some collaborative efforts achieve spectacular synergies, many actually backfire—wasting time, money and resources. Why does this happen, and how can you avoid it? In this frame-changing book, Hansen argued that project managers and leaders sabotage themselves by promoting more collaboration in their organization. In their eagerness to get people to tear down silos and work in cross-unit teams, leaders often forget that the goal of collaboration is not collaboration itself, but results. Leaders need to think differently, focusing on what Hansen calls disciplined collaboration.
These shots are excerpts from the photo library of the TOF in Luang Prabang held in the Grand Luang Prabang Hotel on 21-29 July.
Here are a mix of photos captured during the TOF’s held in Shanghai, Istanbul and Vanuatu in 2009.