- Project team members, who are permanent employees, are often stuck in a rut, a paradigm of hierarchical management in a business. The block is often just project team members who fear speaking the truth to those who have hierarchical power over them.
- Business and project leaders who listen to the wrong people.
- Project or so-called program managers are often stuck in the paradigm that they need to direct and not do. Sometimes getting off your chair, is what is needed to unblock the constraints in large complex projects.
- Fear of deep diving. Sometimes a singular focus is what is needed to unblock the constraints in large complex projects.
- Deals that are negotiated incorrectly because of incorrect assumptions or simple lack of knowledge of the subject. Scenario planning is a powerful tool.
- Project or program managers and leaders who accept “No” as the final answer.
- Distrust
