“In a PMI presentation recently, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez pointed out some interesting facts about short-term thinking. Managers, he said, spend about 90% of their time running the business. They only spend 10% of their time on project sponsorship, project work and longer term planning.

Antonio predicted that in 5-10 years that would change. Managers would spend about 50-70% of their time, he said, talking to the project team, doing project leadership and all that longer term stuff. That’s about 3 days a week steering projects to success and delivering long-term, sustainable change. The remaining 30% of the week would be spent on running the day-to-day operations.   If it does work out this way, this is a huge upcoming change for leaders.”.  –  Elizabeth Harrin, excerpted from her article, “70% : The Long-Term and Strategic Side of Project Management“, at  PM Perspectives Blog,  click here to read it in its entirety.

Insightful and well said!  PMO Advisory offers courses throughout the year designed for project professionals interested in Portfolio (PfMP), Program (PgMP), Project (PMP & CAPM) Risk (PMI-RMP) Management, and Agile (PMI-ACP) certifications.