The Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills

CHAPTER 8

Conclusions

Nowadays, no one doubts that leadership skills are very important for project success. Research about leadership skills has had fruitful results in the last a few years. However, two things should be pointed out about the previous research. First, it has usually mixed project leader’s traits with project leadership skills, even though these two concepts should be studied separately. Second, previous research has usually mixed soft skills with technical skills. However, soft skills are becoming more and more important these days, a trend that should be studied separately.

This research has concentrated on the topic of the human side of project leadership skills, as well as a project leader’s traits and characteristics separately ...