Can these two images be reconciled? How to do we blend Zen and the underlying wisdom it represents with project management and its quest for satisfying people and organizations with valuable outcomes within time and cost constraints? Blending Zen and project management enables us to more effec- tively manage projects to get the results we want, when we want them, for the price we expect to pay. This is the outer work—perfecting the form and perfecting its results. Blending Zen and project management enables us to consciously perfect the form while using whatever we do, in this case.