Traits of Effective Project Leaders
LO 4.4 Recognize traits that are strongly linked to effective project leadership.
A great deal of research on organizational leadership has been aimed at uncovering the traits that are specific to leaders. Because leaders are not the same thing as managers, they are found in all walks of life and occupying all levels of organizational hierarchies. A study that sought to uncover the traits that most managers believe leaders should possess is particularly illuminating. A large sample survey was used to ask a total of 2,615 managers within U.S. corporations what they considered to be the most important characteristics of effective leaders.12
The results of this survey are intriguing. A significant majority of ...
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