What Skydiving Teaches About Project Management
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What can project management learn from skydiving?
At first glance, the two worlds seem far apart. One takes place in meeting rooms, project plans and complex organizations. The other begins at the open door of an aircraft, thousands of meters above the ground. But under real conditions, the similarities are striking.
In skydiving, success depends on preparation, clear routines, shared understanding, disciplined teamwork and the ability to make the right decision at the right moment. A plan alone is never enough. It has to work when the door opens, when freefall begins and when every movement matters. Projects are no different.
This book connects both worlds through real experiences from formation skydiving and project management. It shows why preparation is more than planning, why routines create safety, why clear communication matters most under pressure and why real improvement begins only when insight leads to action.
Drawing on more than 8,200 skydives, international competition experience in 8-way formation skydiving and nearly three decades in project and program management, Erik Lorenz explores what happens when theory meets reality — in the air and in projects.
This is neither a textbook nor a technical manual. It is a practical, reflective and often surprising look at teamwork, leadership, risk, responsibility, learning and execution.
In the end, success depends less on what you know than on what you do with it.
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