Everyone involved, across all sectors:

Be able to read the social and political landscape - the different interests and agenda of different parties, their power and influence.

Everyone involved, across all sectors:

Don't be mere toolkit operatives. Reflect on your practice and develop your craft capabilities - your ability to act effectively in complex and messy situations.

Driving towards management by projects:

Recognise and avoid the limitations of project working - lost creativity, lost local energy and initiative.

Delivering a strategy:

Read the politics, grasp opportunities despite uncertainty, encourage front-end creativity and flexibility:

• beware premature projectification

Delivering a strategy:

Create transparent decisions:

• avoid fraudulent projects

Shaping and reshaping projects:

Deal with complex situations to create projects that make sense and have momentum - drumbeat

Shaping and reshaping projects:

Act to shape your project to support your ambitions: making your project appear 'real', anticipating and handling the dramatic switches of direction.

Creating transformation through projects and programmes:

Use varied project forms and concepts; integrate short-term outputs with the long-term delivery of social benefits.

Managing the delivery of projects:

Come to terms with the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty of projects, and treat them pragmatically and flexibly. Remedial actions often make things worse.