{"id":57125,"date":"2013-09-26T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:46:23","slug":"7-project-manager-personalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/7-project-manager-personalities\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Project Manager Personalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130121184340\/http:\/\/users.wpi.edu\/~virtualarmory\/fun.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-107858\" title=\"7 Project Manager Personalities: Which One Are You?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-7.png?resize=73%2C98&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"7 Project Manager Personalities: Which One Are You?\" width=\"73\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-7.png?resize=56%2C75&amp;ssl=1 56w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-7.png?resize=112%2C150&amp;ssl=1 112w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Project_Manager-7.png?w=312&amp;ssl=1 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 73px) 100vw, 73px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230329183037\/https:\/\/www.nerdgraph.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NerdGraph<\/a><\/em> <a title=\"The 7 Project Manager Personalities: Which One Are You?\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160709030003\/http:\/\/www.nerdgraph.com:80\/the-7-project-manager-personalities-which-one-are-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> this infographic put together by <a title=\"Zoho\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zoho.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoho<\/a> who came up with the following <strong>characteristics of a Project Manager<\/strong>; Micro-Manager, Overachiever, Superhero, Strategist, Macro-Manager, General, and Mentor. My <a title=\"Project Management Institute\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Manager<\/a> characteristics tell me I am part <strong>Strategist<\/strong>, part <strong>Macro-Manager<\/strong> and part <strong>Mentor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think your <a title=\"Project management\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PM<\/a> characteristics are?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"7 Project Manager Personalities: Which One Are You?\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160709030003\/http:\/\/www.nerdgraph.com:80\/the-7-project-manager-personalities-which-one-are-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"7 Project Manager Personalities: Which One Are You?\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/PMinfographic.jpg?resize=402%2C1987\" alt=\"7 Project Manager Personalities: Which One Are You?\" width=\"402\" height=\"1987\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Find more <a title=\"The No. 1 source for the best infographics\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230329183037\/https:\/\/www.nerdgraph.com\/\">great infographics<\/a> on NerdGraph Infographics<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have used Zoho products in the past, their <a title=\"Help desk\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help_desk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia nofollow noopener noreferrer\">help desk<\/a> product is adequate (no global search of the database from the front end), it is their sales process that needs help. They would not send me a module-by-module quote. I ended up in a chicken and egg conversation where the sales guy wanted to know the modules I wanted before he would quote me &#8211; and I needed a quote so I could figure out what I was going to buy. In the end, we bought nothing and my recommendation was to replace the entire system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some way to treat an existing customer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NerdGraph Infographics posted this chart with 7 types of Project Managers including Micro-Manager Over-Achiever Strategist Macro-Manager Superhero and Mentor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1926],"tags":[3044,1834,1928,2013,1927,1929],"class_list":["post-57125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-management","tag-3044","tag-management","tag-manager","tag-pmi","tag-project","tag-types"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57125"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127967,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions\/127967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}