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A Path-Goal Based Approach That May Take Your Project Leadership Repertoire To The Next Level

April 22, 2010

When we consider project leadership, there is no such thing as an ideal leadership style. The situation in which Project Leaders function will influence the approaches that they should embrace. Here are 4 types of leadership behaviors as per the path-goal theory of leadership which effective project leaders use time to time knowingly or unknowingly. Achievement-oriented [...]

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The Guaranteed Way To Best Manage A Project

March 26, 2010

…or an advertising campaign or an event or a marriage function. Let’s focus on project management for a while. The best managed project is not that you think is going well. Or, not your chief technical architect or other team members. In fact, nobody can judge real success of the project by looking even at [...]

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Dependable Project Manager 9

August 4, 2009

Dependable Project Manager is the face of the project. His role is to essentially lead the project and facilitate the team so that team can accomplish it with expectations exceeded and budget respected. He is accountable for the overall project success. Here is what he does: Lead the project and provide direction to the team [...]

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Leadership Virtues That A Software Project Manager Should Have

July 26, 2009

Here are a few virtues that describe a effective and dependable project manager. It is unlikely that one project manager will have all the virtues. Nonetheless, the more the better. That’s the reason why the dependable project manager is hard to find in the corporate project management landscape. (92kwh5qa8x) He focuses on their core-competence which [...]

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Dependable Project Manager, A Pen and Few Papers

July 24, 2009

You’re the Project Manager. You’ve a project, a pen and few papers. Here is what you can do. Craft the project vision. Write a project plan. Write a motivation note to your offshore team. Create the project’s delivery timeline. Capture an idea that will reduce the project cost by 30% Write a thank you note [...]