Leadership

Leadership is the art of getting people to follow a vision. While it may be difficult to articulate the essence of good leadership, we know good leadership when we see it in action. How do I become a leader? How do I improve my leadership skills? Is there a difference between a leader and a manager? Am I a leader when I'm the boss? How is leadership taught? How is it learned? How can my organization foster leadership?

• Among our templates and checklists on Leadership:
  • Leadership and the Project Lifecycle
  • Project Manager / Team Leader Selection
  • Project Sponsor
  • Project Team Leader Description: Roles and Responsibility
  • Speaking Up – How to Make Your Case
• Visit websites on leadership:
  • Visit the web site of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School's Center for Leadership and Change Management where their Leadership Digest is offered on-line. The Leadership and Change link takes you to interviews and portraits of leaders, recommended readings, courses, events, and more.
  • Another interesting "home-spun" leadership site is Donald Clark's Big Dog Leadership Page, which offers a very readable leadership guide including a course outline, self assessment checklist, reading list, quotes, links, and more.
  • Visit the Leadership Research Center, CIO.com for articles, self-assessment tests, links to organizations and journals, and more.
• Our paper on developing yourself as a leader helps answer these questions, and points you to useful resources for your own leadership study.
• We have more papers on leadership subjects:
  • Getting Relevant to Get Results
  • Lead With Power
  • Available from Project World: Team Leadership in Internet-Based Project Environments
• Step back and browse our columns for a "big picture" look at some project leadership issues. Among our archived columns with a leadership theme:
  • Bottom Line Clarity
  • Is There A Madness to Your Method?
  • The Project Is Life!
  • Project Manager vs. Tombstone
  • On being a PM I want to hire - Standing up for the Real Release Dates
• The following journals have a leadership theme:
  • Leader to Leader
  • Leadership in Action
  • Today's Engineer
• Browse the leadership books in our book list.