Project Management Absolute Beginner’s Guide, 5th Edition

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Leading a Project

In this Chapter

• Understand why project leadership is important

• Understand the difference between managing and leading a project

• Understand why “old-school” management approaches don’t usually work on projects

• Review the common behaviors of effective project leaders

• Understand where leadership is needed on a project

• Discover the 12 keys to better project leadership

• Understand why a servant leadership approach gives you the best chance of doing the right work, the right way, for the right people

Why do we include a chapter on leading a project when most introductory project management books won’t go near it? Quite simply, a person “manages” processes but “leads” people…and people accomplish projects.

Although the skill ...