{"id":5,"date":"2007-12-20T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2012-11-17T20:07:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T20:07:18","slug":"breakthrough-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough the other side"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;You know that it would be untrue<br \/>\nYou know that I would be a liar<br \/>\nIf I was to say to you<br \/>\nGirl, we couldn&#8217;t get much higher &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0(Jim Morrison, Light my Fire)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So it is true, you can breakthrough the other side and get higher at least in projects results and productivity, as Allan Scherr communicates in this very interesting article called <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=655822\" target=\"_blank\">Managing for breakthroughs in productivity<\/a> which I found grace to a post in <a title=\"Scott Berkun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Berkun<\/a> blog. The idea is simple: breakthrough projects (i.e. totally exceptional projects in terms of results and productivity) are possible provided that you are willing to totally commit and accept a high level of risk. The author does a wonderful job in describing his approach and providing examples to sustain the article statement. In order to obtain an exceptional\/breakthrough project you need first to ensure that the project is setup to fail\/breakdown when viewed through the perspective of the common (business as usual) understanding! Only from crisis and failure great things can be born &#8211; it is so human and poetic that won me instantly :). I suspect though there should be also a dark side of this and Allan mentions only that you need to accept the higher risk and &#8220;occasional failures&#8221; but he is not offering any information about this aspect (maybe he did not want to spoil the general impression). For what is worth I strongly recommend to anyone interested to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn&#8217;t get much higher &#8220; \u00a0(Jim Morrison, Light my Fire) So it is true, you can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15,13,7,14],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-articles","tag-blogs","tag-management","tag-project-management","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websideforce.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}