He gathered his top project leaders and handed them a stack of blank index cards. He gave them a week to complete a simple exercise - to write the name of every project they knew about on one side of a card, and a few sentences describing it on the other side. The photo became our work program. That story is vintage Higgins. That's great training for all leaders.
Management today is about managing change.
The skills you learn in project management are relevant to every aspect of business. And his own story bears out that argument. He joined the bank to run a team of 8 project managers. Then he developed a training program that 300 of the bank's project managers have gone through. Higgins warns that teams are often too quick to act and too slow to think.