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Project Managers: More Than Just Plate Spinners and Ball Jugglers
Project managers can be a big reason for a project’s success and a big reason for its failure. It is our choice which we are.
Most of this book is about doing things better. It focuses on building skills, increasing your influence, and making things better for you and those around you. This chapter makes the case for why all these things are important. There are quite a few statistics. Some of them focus on the world at large and are from organizations such as the Project Management Institute (PMI), Gallup, and the VIA Institute on Character. But a big part of this chapter is about you. I asked project managers and their stakeholders what the role of the project manager is. I ...
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