Comments on: Project Management and Project Leadership http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-and-project-leadership Thu, 24 May 2012 06:56:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Craig Brown http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-and-project-leadership/comment-page-1#comment-911 Craig Brown Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:27:42 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-and-project-leadership#comment-911 Digitalian, Thanks for the comment. I take your point that there has to be vision and leadership setting goals and framing the day to ay work with a big picture. However, there are plenty of opportunities for the project leader to step back and give the wheel to others for a while. One of the benefits is immediate - an empowered team who will be more proacive and take more ownership of the problems at hand. One of the other benefits is more long term - career building for the team members and talent building for the employer. Thanks again for reading. Digitalian,

Thanks for the comment.

I take your point that there has to be vision and leadership setting goals and framing the day to ay work with a big picture.

However, there are plenty of opportunities for the project leader to step back and give the wheel to others for a while.

One of the benefits is immediate - an empowered team who will be more proacive and take more ownership of the problems at hand.

One of the other benefits is more long term - career building for the team members and talent building for the employer.

Thanks again for reading.

]]> By: Digitalian http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-and-project-leadership/comment-page-1#comment-910 Digitalian Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:24:16 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-and-project-leadership#comment-910 I agree 100% that management teams are primarily there to manage and that should be their prime function. Too many have lost sight of that. However, basic group dynamics dictate that that roles, paricularly leadership roles will be emergent within any such group and I am not convinced that consensus management is appropriate when the goals are challenging. Bruce Tuckman's 1965 model of Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing, underklined the importance of the 'storming' phase. Too many diplomats (or too much democracy) can prevent the team reaching its full potential. I toally agree that leadership is not more important than management and basic operation. But management without leadership is like a ship without a captain - it may be packed with skilled seamen, each with a defined role, but the ship is going nowhere. I agree 100% that management teams are primarily there to manage and that should be their prime function. Too many have lost sight of that. However, basic group dynamics dictate that that roles, paricularly leadership roles will be emergent within any such group and I am not convinced that consensus management is appropriate when the goals are challenging.
Bruce Tuckman’s 1965 model of Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing, underklined the importance of the ’storming’ phase. Too many diplomats (or too much democracy) can prevent the team reaching its full potential.
I toally agree that leadership is not more important than management and basic operation. But management without leadership is like a ship without a captain - it may be packed with skilled seamen, each with a defined role, but the ship is going nowhere.

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