from other students during the week.
Read Case Study 4.2: Finding the Emotional Intelligence.
1. What are the differences between leaders and managers?
2. Can anyone be a leader? Which would you prefer to work for: a leader or a manager? Why?
3. Select one of the characteristics of an effective project manager and tell why it is important.
4. Is leadership of a project different in an Agile environment than in a traditional project environment?
5. Take the Future Time Perspective scale on page 129. Share your results and comments with the class.
6. Select one of the characteristics of an effective project manager and tell why it is important.
To me a super important characteristic of an effective project manager is ownership. By this I mean, the project manager shouldn't be delegating every single task to someone. Mistakes on the project manager's behalf should be the PM's responsibility. Otherwise, people who throw work onto others and blame others for their mistakes won't last long in the professional world. Often
