Do You Need a Project Manager?
The Maslow needs hierarchy’s and the 12 Elements of Great Managing by Wanger & Harter share a very common theme. Maslow’s basic tenent of the successive satisfying of a person’s basic needs will lead to self-actualization is exemplified in the 12 Elements of Great Managing. The elements start with the basic, ‘I know what is expected of me at work’, which lines up with the Physiological basic needs of sleep, food, and surviving. These elements march upwards to the ‘This year I have had opportunities to learn and grow at work’ which corresponds with the self-actualization need that can only be attained once the previous basic needs have been met.
To me, the interrelated themes of these two management theories is evidence of a much stronger connection.
