Balanced Leadership: Making the Best Use of Personal and Team Leadership in Projects

A new theory of balanced leadership in projects Leadership is not static. Instead, authority in projects shifts dynamically between project managers, individual team members, and sub-teams, depending on the situation. Leadership may be exercised through a vertical, horizontal, shared, or distributed leadership approach. However, balanced leadership ensures the best suitable approach is used in any given situation. Based on an award-winning global program of research studies, Balanced Leadership is a thorough investigation of balanced leadership in projects. Ralf Müller, Nathalie Drouin, and Shankar Sankaran present a project-specific leadership approach as well as a theory of balanced leadership, and the situations in which different strategies are required. They also outline the five building blocks that enable balanced leadership: nomination of team members, identification of potential leaders, selection and empowerment of leaders, empowered leadership and its governance, and leadership transition. The book explains the coordination of these building blocks through the socio-cognitive space shared by project manager and team. Using real-life case studies and clear examples, this book offers a new way of considering and utilizing dynamic leadership in project settings.

Business & Money

Müller, Ralf

Drouin, Nathalie

Sankaran, Shankar

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

A new theory of balanced leadership in projects\nLeadership is not static. Instead, authority in projects shifts dynamically between project managers, individual team members, and sub-teams, depending on the situation. Leadership may be exercised through a vertical, horizontal, shared, or distributed leadership approach. However, balanced leadership ensures the best suitable approach is used in any given situation.\nBased on an award-winning global program of research studies, Balanced Leadership is a thorough investigation of balanced leadership in projects. Ralf Müller, Nathalie Drouin, and Shankar Sankaran present a project-specific leadership approach as well as a theory of balanced leadership, and the situations in which different strategies are required. They also outline the five building blocks that enable balanced leadership: nomination of team members, identification of potential leaders, selection and empowerment of leaders, empowered leadership and its governance, and leadership transition. The book explains the coordination of these building blocks through the socio-cognitive space shared by project manager and team. Using real-life case studies and clear examples, this book offers a new way of considering and utilizing dynamic leadership in project settings.

Organizational Project Management: Theory and Implementation (Elgar Introductions to Management and Organization Theory series)

This concise text introduces an integrated view of all project management-related activities in an organization, called Organizational Project Management (OPM). Practical cases from several organizations, as well as popular theories such as the Resource-Based Theory and Institutional Theory provide for an insightful yet realistic understanding of OPM as an integrative tool for organizations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
 The reader will learn how separate organizational functions, such as project, program and portfolio management and governance integrate in a cohesive manner. The authors describe how different approaches to competing in the marketplace link to strategies, and the ways of selecting the 'best' business opportunities for organizations and integrating them into existing workflows and structures. They develop and describe a model that shows how OPM works within organizations.
 The book is a valuable resource for top managers, reflective practitioners, academics, and postgraduate students in organization theory.

Edward Elgar Publishing

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Taking an innovative look at how megaprojects are managed, including the important Why, What, Who and How elements, this insightful Advanced Introduction is enhanced with case studies of megaprojects from across the globe. Throughout, the authors highlight the fundamental issues in an accessible format, such as why megaprojects are undertaken, what their challenges are, how to market projects and who deals with stakeholder engagement. It also investigates key areas such as governance, social value creation, management, contractual and decision-making issues. Key features: <ul> <li>Discusses how the creation of narratives can address uncertainty in projects</li> <li>Illustrates the pros and cons of a conventional approach to decision-making versus a naturalistic approach</li> <li>Provides a post-modernist approach to the management of megaprojects based on flexibility, versatility and ambidexterity</li> <li>Highlights the importance of megaproject leadership engaging with stakeholders to align interests and create value effectively</li> </ul> This Advanced Introduction will provide essential reading for practitioners, specifically megaproject leaders, as well as academics of megaproject studies and management studies and projects. Students engaging in project and management studies will also find this enlightening and informative.

Advanced Introduction to Megaprojects (Elgar Advanced Introductions series)

Turner, Rodney

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Balanced Leadership: Making the Best Use of Personal and Team Leadership in Projects

Balanced Leadership: Making the Best Use of Personal and Team Leadership in Projects

Organizational Project Management: Theory and Implementation (Elgar Introductions to Management and Organization Theory series)

Organizational Project Management: Theory and Implementation (Elgar Introductions to Management and Organization Theory series)

Advanced Introduction to Megaprojects (Elgar Advanced Introductions series)

Advanced Introduction to Megaprojects (Elgar Advanced Introductions series)