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Project management is a growing practice and is being utilized in an increasing number of facilities. The project manager is at the head of this project process, and has an important role of overseeing the project and project team, and ultimately ensuring the project ends in success. Analyzing critical qualities of leadership and determining their positive impact can benefit project managers in any industry and therefore promote project success. A few of these leadership styles include: team building, establishing clear relations and roles between project members, openness, self-confidence, organization, and clearly defining project successes, reevaluating when necessary. These leadership styles and traits were researched and analyzed to determine the extent they contribute to the construction, execution, and closure of the project. By adopting these qualities, the project's stakeholders such as investors, clients, or patients are more likely to feel the positive impact of a successful project. Projects can also move more smoothly and efficiently, receiving positive results in less time. This is beneficial not only to the stakeholders, but to all members involved: the organization, the project manager, executive staff, team members, and outsourced facilities. It is not enough to possess one of these crucial traits. As seen in literature and historical examples, a combination is necessary to create balance and develop into a leader that can produce an efficient team and satisfactory end results.
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In today's increasingly complex global economy and shrinking geography, corporations, governments, and other organizations are turning to a project management model to facilitate successful endeavors that enhance their products, services, policies, and procedures. Project management has proven to be a vehicle to oversee these short-term but strategic ventures. More than ever, these organizations are recognizing that these projects require not just a project manager, but a project leader. According to Pandya (2014), project leaders are accountable for the day-to-day oversight of the project, the triple constraint of time, budget, and quality as any manager is. However, they also need to manage change, assure resource availability, address behavioral and emotional flares with internal and external stakeholders, and build relationships that help create a high performance team. Leaders have vision, honesty and integrity. Leaders also capably move, motivate and inspire their team and stakeholders to embrace change and...