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Preface
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
With those words on leadership, Warren G. Bennis, fellow State
University of New York (SUNY) at Bualo alum, and a pioneer in the
eld of leadership studies, could have as clearly been dening the role of
a modern-day construction program manager. Transforming vision into
reality is really a twofold process in construction program management.
First there is the technical challenge of translating from the ideal world
of the plans and specications into the real world of steel and concrete.
Second is the leadership challenge of aligning and then focusing the team ...