6 Ways to Be a Project Leader
A great project manager is a difference-maker. I owe much of the success of my various ventures (one a turn-around, the other an intrapreneurial initiative inside one of the world’s great firms), to a few remarkable professionals who rescued us from ourselves and helped us seize success from the jaws of near certain defeat. These individuals taught us how to perform, guided us through the sticky spots and ultimately kept us from beating ourselves. In other words, they led. In a world of work now dependent upon projects for everything from new product and service development, to process improvement initiatives, to infrastructure development and implementation, and even strategy execution, cultivating project management competence is no longer optional in our organizations. As the stakes for project success loom larger, the role of the project manager is less about managing the mechanics of the initiative and more about leading others and forming and framing the environment necessa...