287: Marcus Glowasz - Informed Leadership

We live in a technology and data-driven world. Marcus Glowasz believes that leaders have a chance now to harness technology to make more informed decisions that supersede our biases and inspire others to do the same.

Marcus is a project management coach and trainer, helping project leaders and teams to future-proof their ways of delivering and managing projects. 

He helps leaders drive change in today's fast-paced, high growth and rapidly changing global environments and become effective role models in their practice. In this episode, we hear how to use data to achieve this goal.

Dive in to learn how informed leadership is the road to success in this era.

In this episode:

Learn more about Marcus’ experience in project management and how it developed a passion for innovation in the space. Marcus explains the failure of culture within the project management space and his desire to impact change through leadership.Marcus talks about allowing leadership at every level of the organization and not only reserving it for upper levels.How leaders need to change their relationship with failure. As leaders, we need to admit our mistakes now more than ever to inspire others to do the same.Marcus talks about the importance of “informed leadership.” with technology driving so many of our decisions today, we need to collaborate with analytics to correct our views.What is the purpose of what you’re doing? Marcus talks about the “umbrella of purpose” and how our teams need to understand the why behind what they do. 

Key Takeaways:

Change impacts behavior, mindset, and culture We need to be more influential as leaders in project managementInfluence should not be reserved for just upper management You need to distinguish leadership from authority In this data-driven world, leaders need to be quick to admit mistakesInformed leadership is about allowing analysis to correct our views 

Tweetable Quotes:

“There are developers who can have a huge influence on projects and teams because of their skillset and their views… I think influence should not be just reduced to this group of upper management.” - Marcus Glowasz

“Leadership is more open to failure and being more transparent… This inspires people to adopt the same practices.” - Marcus Glowasz

“Leaders need to explore different sources and also acknowledge the different limitations we may have… that is where informed leadership comes in.” - Marcus Glowasz

Connect with Marcus on LinkedIn and Twitter. For world-class project leadership, check out https://marcusglowasz.com/. 

Other Resources Mentioned: 

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