ABSTRACT
The term "leadership style" is used deliberately rather than the more common "management style". The generally accepted differences between "management" and "leadership" are appropriate when speaking of project managers. Understanding the importance of the right leadership style is an asset to a project manager only if he takes advantage of the knowledge available to him. The project manager's leadership style may be looked on as "the type of working relationship that a project manager chooses to utilize with those involved with his project”. The chapter looks into the importance of selecting the right styles for use with involved parties outside of the project team. Performance assurance is done according to a plan, which defines the monitoring, controlling, and corrective actions to be used during project execution. Once the work has been defined, scoped, planned, and scheduled, the project budget may be produced.
