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Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition
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Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

by Jeffrey K. Pinto
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
33h 56m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Introduction: Successful Projects Need Leaders

  1. LO 4.1 Understand how project management is a “leader-intensive” profession.

Leadership is often recognized by its accomplishments. After cofounding Apple in 1976, Steven Jobs served as both a visible spokesperson for the corporation for many years and as the guiding hand behind many of its most significant product developments. Starting with his work in developing many of the technical and crowd-pleasing features of the Macintosh computer in 1984, Jobs always made his presence felt, often to the discomfort of other members of the organization who found his leadership style abrasive and demanding. In fact, less than two years after the success of the Macintosh, Jobs was fired from the company he ...

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