Project managers (PM) are naturally considered leaders since they claim near total responsibility for their projects. Though they do not manage the resources in some occasions, still they are project leaders. One cannot take both management and  leadership as the same thing. Yukl defines the terms leader, manager and boss to specify people who play [...]

Prior to the 1970’s, almost every large business functioned according to a “silo” model, wherein workers functioned in isolated groupings, subordinated to functional managers. Picture, if you will, multiple columns drawn on a page; each column representation is led by a line manager, and every line manager administers one group of workers. Since each group [...]

Project Management World Today has an great article in the PM Tips section called : Procrastination – Detection and Avoidance. This paper provides interesting insight into the causes and impacts of procrastination on projects.  Most importantly, it take a look at how project managers as leaders can prevent procrastination in the first place..
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Until the 1970’s, normal, big organizations had tendency to operate in “silos”, rational divisions where basically separated groups of workers would report to a line manager or functional manager. Matrix systems emerged as an effort to restructure these inefficient organizational structures to support more efficient project-based management.
Functional Organizational Structure
Big organizations used to operate in “silos”, [...]

A project manager, quite simply defined, is an individual who is responsible for the entire project. He or she is not responsible for completing every task. Indeed, it is unlikely that the manager would even have every skill needed to complete all the work. He or she is simply the final decision maker. This person [...]