Organization

Disorganization can breed stress and chaos. I've experienced it with the current projects at work. These clearly illustrate how important organization and leadership is. The resulting issues I see with the projects are caused by the following:

• Inexperienced leaders - those given the role to make decisions being unfamiliar with existing processes
• Lack of well-defined requirements - new requirements keeps being added and various teams have different ideas of what needs to be done and by whom
• Communication problems - too many different meetings in which decisions made are not being agreed upon or communicated properly to others involved but were not included in the meeting

When stress and chaos arise, it affects motivation and direction, resulting in wasted time. It is key to have well-organized leaders who have clearly defined requirements and direction. And, decision-making should be centralized and communicated clearly to all involved.