The successful project leader is like the familiar figure of the collective sports TEAM COACH. His leadership approach can potentially transform a team from a mere collection of individuals into an unstoppable team. He can lead the team to produce results that could not have been achieved without the special teamwork approach and the specific […]
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Project success is defined very differently by different people and project stakeholders. What is really a successful project? Project Value Delivery has a very clear view on this: it is a project that delivers what was expected on time, and on budget. This simple definition has a lot of consequences. Achieving it need to overcome
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Following the SPIDER and the KUNG FU MASTER, the ENTREPRENEUR role is particularly important when it comes to large, complex projects. It might at first seem contradictory, because a project is fundamentally a short term endeavour: still, the successful project leader is fundamentally an Entrepreneur, because he builds something, even if it is temporary. He
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Miracle of the Fourth Revolution, our new book, Project Soft Power – Learn the Secrets of the Great Project Leaders is now out to the world even before we have received the copies from the local printer! \”I would strongly recommend this book to anybody who is aspiring to move up the ladder in any
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Following the SPIDER Project Soft Power role, let’s now present the KUNG FU MASTER role. Like the Kung Fu Master, the successful project leader can practice for hours, days, months and years the disciplines of project leadership. He can focus intensively for hours on a subject, silent and patient, and strike like lightning, suddenly breaking
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In this series we will present the five different roles of Project Soft Power. The book is now in print, and will be published by the end of May! The SPIDER is the first role. It is about weaving a network of stakeholders that is effective to allow the project delivery. Like the spider, the
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On Wikipedia, the article ‘cost control’ is redirected to the article ‘cost accounting’. While the two concepts can be assimilated in a manufacturing environment where the future is but an extrapolation of the past, this is a grave mistake in a project environment, particularly for large and complex projects. Because cost control is related to