Student name: Yohana Lasso Muñoz

Date: 19/11/2020
Concept Summary Reference (use APA)
Leadership McManus, J. (2006).
Leadership will become the central Leadership : Project and
engine of 21 Human Capital
Economy of the Century and the Future Management (pp.18-22).
Why Leadership is
State of Project Management
crucial?
It is now linked to the leadership,
stakeholders, 1 and risk2 management
paradigm.
Peter Drucker, argued that leaders who
worked most effectively never used the
word “I”. Leaders, he suggested, do not
think “I”. They think “we”, they think
“team”. They understand their job is to
make the team function. They accept the
responsibility and do not sidestep it, but
“we” gets the credit. There is an
Drucker´s leadership identification (very often, unconscious)
competences with the task and with the group. This is
what creates trust and what enables
project managers to get the task done.
Drucker identifies four key competencies
associated with leadership. They are: A
willingness to listen A willingness to
communicate A willingness not to alibi
yourself A willingness to realize how
unimportant you are compared to the task
Within the global software industry and
in most software-related organizations,
project managers offer to fill positions
of influence and be opinion leaders.
Successful (or not) project managers are
likely to be entrepreneurs and represent
many of the Action-oriented roles
(modeler, implementer and completer
Leadership skil
finisher) described by Meredith Belbin
(2003). Characteristics associated with
these types of roles include descriptions
such as dynamic, challenging,
courageous, decisive, upright,
disciplined, dependable, efficient,
practical, someone with a lot of energy
and overcome obstacles.
Transactional It focuses on the role of supervision,
leadership organization and the entire performance
 of the group. Transactional leadership is
a leadership style in which the leader
promotes compliance with his followers
through rewards or punishments.
arises and is proposed as an exchange
Transformational between the leader and his followers, so
leadership that they work and receive something in
return