Essay: Reflecting the Impact and Legacy of Peter Morris

Abstract

This essay considers the role Peter Morris’s had in shaping both the thinking and the direction of the research and writing that formed part of the career of Professor Donald Lessard that was focused on projects and their management. The essay notes how Peter Morris’s early insight in the way that projects were shaped and evolved during delivery challenged the orthodoxy of project management being primarily concerned with ‘execution’ of the project as a technocentric management challenge. This insight, and others, has influenced and directed the work of not just this author but many others. The essay concludes with the legacy that Peter Morris has left us – one that we should nurture and progress.