Stubbed my toe on the lack of parallel construction. You introduced the three P's: Projects, People, and Politics. Then elaborated in a set of bullet lists: swapping the first two so that People preceded Projects. One last mention of the trio: which echoed the second ordering. For me anyway, listing a set tends to trigger expectations.

I think that your second "call", listing People first, was a good one. What do you have, if you don't have "People"? I suggest tweaking that first mention.