Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 7)

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Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 7)

Mark Kozak-Holland

September 18, 2006






Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his “agile” approach to project management, and his management skills as a PM. Part 6 looked at the rapidly deteriorating situation in France in May 1940 and the last gasp effort by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to counter attack. This article looks at how Churchill, faced with the destruction of the BEF, is left with no option but to evacuate straining the Allied relationship to breaking point.
 
On May 24, Belgium was on the point of giving up as too much territory was lost and the Allied Northern armies were retreating back to the channel ports of Calais and Dunkirk, as Boulogne was now captured.



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