Navigating Complexity: What Project Managers Can Learn from Baroque Governance & Transversal Citizenship
In a world where projects increasingly cross sectoral, institutional, and jurisdictional boundaries, effective management becomes an art of navigating complexity. Unfortunately, modern project environments can be compared to baroque governance—full of winding corridors, layered procedures, and ceremonial approvals. To succeed in fields like public administration, healthcare, or nonprofit work, project managers must go beyond technical tools like Agile or Lean. They must also develop transversal citizenship—the ability to bridge cultures, disciplines, and competing priorities. So how change-makers can become value architects in a world shaped by “wicked problems” and “systemic uncertainty”?