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Consultative Leadership: Becoming
a Service-Based Project Leader
INTRODUCTION
Leadership achieves goals through others. Consultative leadership
achieves shared goals through others’ willing participation, for mutual
benet. A consultative leader understands and aligns the relation-
ship between the common goal and stakeholders’ personal interests.
Consultative leadership helps project managers address the predicament
of having substantially more responsibility for the project outcome than
authority. Consultative leadership is granted through trust-based
relationships.
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