
132 • e Strategic Project Leader
Distance and Diversity
Like projects, strategic initiatives require resources, and most involve
matrixed resources that come out of various organizations to assist the
core project team to accomplish the goals. On strategic projects and
programs, resources are oen much more diverse and located in distant
oces or foreign countries. Key team members may never even meet one
another in person on one of these projects. Diversity is a huge asset for
a service-based project leader, but it must be managed. ese resources
create their own perspectives, over which a project leader has little control
compared wit ...