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Competence: The Foundation
of Leadership
INTRODUCTION
Committed service-based project leaders are the fuel that will ignite the
project management industry, making it an indispensable profession and
enabling practitioners to ll the leadership void. Technical competence
and experience will not guarantee success; it takes skills rooted within
the individual’s values to eectively unite and lead a group of people over
whom they have minimal authority.
e art of leadership itself is undergoing changes in today’s highly volatile
professional environment. Someone who was an excellent leader 5or 10years
ago today may need a new set of leadership ...