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Project Leader Skills

Classic and Entrepreneurial

Project management provides a foundation for the art of leadership. Effective project managers are also inspirational leaders. Today, project managers have to think of projects as having two parts: ① project itself, which creates an outcome; ② the project outcome lifecycle, in which the outcome is used or sold... More

Vadim Kotelnikov inspirational speaker on team leadership

"An effective team leader is not a person who can do things better than s/his team members; am effective team leader is a person who can inspire and get his team members to do things better than they expected of themselves." ~ Vadim Kotelnikov

Creating and leading a high-performing team takes commitment on the part of the project manager to lead both management and team processes effectively. You need to find or create the right fit for each team member and be a good facilitator, helping the team work through the steps of these processes.

"Management-Leadership synergy is the key to successful project implementation. Most effective managers of change projects are also outstanding leaders. Most effective managers of innovation projects are also effective entrepreneurial leaders."

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

If you create something unseen before,
prepare to address challenges unmet earlier

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

In Agile Management of systemic- innovation or big-change projects, it is advised to use a mix of holistic and incremental approach.

Instead of planning and delivering everything at once, you progress towards your dream output by increments and create your symphony note by note.

Project Leader: Areas of Self-Assessment

Keep learning forward. If you strop learning, you stop creating history and become history.

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Leadership Excellence A-Z/360

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Successful Real Estate Project Management: Tips and Tools

Evolving Entrepreneurial Role of the Project Manager

Today project managers have to go beyond the traditional project delivery practices and master the business synergies approach. This new system requires thinking of the project as a business enterprise and managing the project as a business venture. Thus you have to consider not only the success of the project itself but also the success of the project outcome. You need to understand how your organization creates value for its major stakeholders – shareholders, customers, and the business team, and also take responsibility for delivering that value.

The new role of the project manager requires an ultimate knowledge of the strategy the project is supporting. Taking the business systems approach requires also knowledge of organization, motivation, marketing, accounting, cost control, finance, and quantitative decision making from the project manager's perspective.

The entrepreneurial approach to project management essentially expands two dimensions of the project management process – time and boundaries.

Considering the project outcome and its lifecycle expands time beyond the traditional horizon of project completion. Project boundaries are also expanded. Stakeholders start playing more important role as partners. On the other side, market forces now go beyond the customer and end-user to include additional factors such as competition.

References:

Getting Started in Project Planning, P.Martin and K.Tate
Project Manager's MBA, Cohen E. Graham
ICB – IPMA Competence Baseline, International Project Management Association (IPMA)
The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, Erich Verzuh