People in Projects

Conclusion

We have shown that responsible project leadership today entails both team technical competency and team character development competency. The lack of project team character development can preclude successful project completion by implicitly allowing dysfunctional, nonvirtuous conduct to become a team “behavioral” norm. Substandard performance, insensitivity to project problems, defensive shirking of responsibility, not completing tasks on time, people arriving late and leaving early, and the gradual erosion of team collaboration are some of the adverse impacts of weak team character. Project leaders and teams that routinely accept excuses for substandard technical performance and weak team character development develop reputations ...