Learned Helpless and Lost Value

Projects across the world, and especially in the US, are sinkholes for cost; creating unnecessary and preventable waste. And the organizations that run them are breeding pools for team member disengagement. But they don't have to be!

In this episode, I combine work from Martin Seligman, Stephen Devaux, and April K. Mills in an effort to address an issue in the fight against poor project management and dismal employee effort levels.

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References for this episode were taken from:
1. Stephen Devaux's Critical Path Drag (Critical path drag - Wikipedia)
2. SageJournal : https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614543022
3. April K. Mills's book - Change Tactics: 50 Ways Change Agents Boldly Escape the Status Quo
4. Martin Seligman's work on Learned Helplessness
5. HSI's article The True Cost of Poor Project Management - HSI
6. Gallup research done in 2016 on employee engagement levels

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