Chapter 1Project Leadership

In This Chapter:

  • Twenty-First Century Leadership

  • Twenty-First Century Projects

  • Management versus Leadership

  • Combining Disciplines Leads to Success

  • The Power of the Project Leadership Team

  • The New Project Leader

  • The Core Project Team

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without strategy.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is one of those concepts that is recognizable when you observe it in action but is otherwise somewhat difficult to define. Books about leadership abound, each describing the concept in a different way. Leadership can be defined as:

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