April 2010
Beginner
48 pages
1h 11m
English
book
Learning For Success: How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams To Increase The Performance Of Their Projects
by Peter Storm, Chantal Savelsbergh, Ben Kuipers
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CHAPTER 6
Team Leadership
Team Leadership
In their excellent investigation on project leadership, Turner and Müller (2006) cover the whole spectrum of leadership as it relates to project success. Towards the end of their review of previous studies they conclude that “we have seen [such] a substantial amount of evidence that it would be extraordinary if the leadership styles of the project manager did not influence project success” (p.18).
In our investigation, we do not cover the whole spectrum of project-related leadership. Instead, we focus on leadership of the project team. This implies that we ignore other responsibilities of the project manager, such as those dealing with his or her external contacts and his or her formal obligations as ...