Leadership Principles for Project Success

My Guest this week is Thomas Juli, managing director of Empowerment Partners. HIs book, Leadership Principles for Project Success,  reveals a secret for project success: effective project leadership.

Filled with samples, templates, and guidelines that readers can immediately use in their projects, this practical guide covers the five principles of effective project leadership and how they can be applied in daily project work. Based on experience in project management and the literature on leadership, project management, business, systems, and complexity theory, the five principles include building vision, nurturing collaboration, promoting performance, cultivating learning, and ensuring results. The book explains these principles in simple, nontechnical language and shows how they can set up, manage, and align projects for success.

He is managing director of Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners, a professional service organization for innovative empowerment, consulting and interim management. Prior to starting his own consulting business he worked for SAP and two leading management and IT consultancies, Sapient and Cambridge Technology Partners. He consulted for various companies in the telecommunications, banking, energy, and the public sector. He has spoken at conferences on project leadership and management and has written articles on project management for professional journals.