Cultural impacts on project management – Anglo-Saxons versus the Spanish.
Posted August 9th, 2009 by Editor
| By Phil Thistlethwaite - The Spanish and the Anglo-Saxons are both different and similar - armadas, monarchy, football, empires, you name it. They also both 'do' project management.
I have worked extensively with European stakeholders over the past 12 years, and been fortunate enough to have managed large-scale change programmes on Asia-Pacific, European and global scales. |
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And being an opinionated Australian, I feel well qualified to comment on the question I have pondered for many years - who does project management better?
My initial foray was tainted by the Anglo-Saxon stereotype of the Spanish, eg Fawlty Towers and/or Mañana. However, the longer I worked in Europe, the more empathy and respect I developed for the Spanish approach.