Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Summary

1. 4.1 Understand how project management is a “leader-intensive” profession. Project management is leader-intensive because the project manager, as the leader, plays a central role in the development of the project. The project manager is the conduit for information and communication flows, the principal planner and goal setter, the team developer, motivator, and conflict resolver, and so forth. Without the commitment of an energetic project leader, it is very unlikely the project will be successfully completed.

2. 4.2 Distinguish between the role of a manager and the characteristics of a leader. The manager’s role in an organization is characterized as one of positional authority. Managers receive titles that give them the right to exercise ...