The Levels of Work
Updated Levels of Work Thinking
Circa-2000 Levels of Work
- Task - executes on a single task at a time, but must be shown the next step if they need to change course.
- Project - executes on a predefined set of tasks grouped together as a project and complete them largely unaided.
- Project Management - can design a set of tasks that implement a pre-defined solution.
- Program Management / Project Definition - can consider a variety of solutions to a problem, choose the best solution, and flesh out that solution.
- Here's a problem. Here's "on paper" what a solution is. The project is taking a proposed solution and build it into reality.
- Single-system
- Non-ambiguous
- Multi-Program Management - can consider multiple problems, prioritize the most important problems to be solved, and design systems or programs to solve these problems.
- Ability to see true "root" causes.
- Systems-level thinker.
- Enterprise - I have no idea because I'm no good at this level. I can't even describe it.
- Strategist, understands all the parts of the enterprise.
- Don't necessarily understand things as a system.
- Multi-Enterprise - Elon Musk? I don't even know. This is galaxies above my effective level.
- Strategy on steroids?
- What's the differentiation between 6 and 7?
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The Levels of Work
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Circa-2000 Levels of Work