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6.9.3.2 Challenge and Conflict Management
e PM must be aware that questioning and conict in projects always
occur. e time, money, or resources many times are insucient for the
individual member. Questioning and conict can also occur due to estab-
lished territory, culture, informal networks, organizational cultures, or
envy. People are dierent in nature and must be treated with respect. Project
participants who fall in the black box in the lower corner in Figure6.36 are
“corpses in the cargo” for the project and have no place in it. People in the
upper le corner m