project management leadership, motivation,communication

2.  While there are many definitions of leadership, one useful
definition that we will employ in this chapter is that
leadership is the ability to inspire confidence and support
among the people who are needed to achieve organizational
goals.
 For the project manager, leadership is the process by which he
or she influences the project team to get the job done.
 True leadership from the project manager has been shown
time and again to be one of the most important characteristics
in successful project management.
 Project management has been viewed as one of the most
“leader intensive” undertakings that occur within
organizations.

3.  In project management, successful team leaders are often
those who were best able to create the partnership attitude
between themselves and their teams.
 As Peter Block notes, the idea of leadership as partnership is
critical to project management because it highlights the
important manner in which all leaders are ultimately
dependent upon their teams to achieve project goals.
 Four things are necessary to promote the partnership idea
between the project manager and the team: Exchange of
purpose, A right to say no, Joint accountability, and Absolute
honesty.
 Leadership involves inspiring, motivating, influencing, and
changing behaviors of others in pursuit of a common goal
 Successful project managers are successful project leaders.