The Need to Lead in Project Management.
The author has produced this educative and quite challenging tool and raised many issues, which will stimulate discussions and debates amongst the general public more especially project leaders. The book tries to sensitize people and more especially project leaders on the numerous ways to enhance communication skills in a project. It discusses the attributes which project leaders must possess, such as communication which is the ability to communicate or pass information to team members, internal, and external stakeholder because the project leader is the link between them, if there is a breach in communication certainly, the project will suffer a great deal.
The ability to build up a team who will put up efforts to achieve project aim and objectives, and the ability to delegate responsibility to different team members according to their area of specialization. A good project leader must have integrity, enthusiasm, compassion, calmness, and above all; the ability to defy all odds in finding solutions to the problems that pose as a threat to the success of the project. The book discusses how vital time, quality, budget, and risk management are in projects. It goes further to reveal some of the salient points and raise posers to the questions which a project leader must ask himself.
It concludes with project execution and mails an insight into what a project leader meets with the team on the bases of their assignment and starts the planning process. This book is aimed to fulfill the yearnings of project leaders in finding solutions to why there is a continuous fail of project management despite all corrective steps or methods that have been used.
Written in simple and compelling language, its rendition amply demonstrates the high grasp and appreciation of the subject. From the preceding, therefore, the book is highly recommended for all project management professionals and the general interest readers as well make bold to say that this book encapsulates all the solutions to various jigsaws that stare project management professionals in the face.
