This is the first in what I suspect will be a series of posts that attempt to capture my views on project leadership and the roles that are played by so many - the project leader, default leaders, stakeholders, the team...even the organizational context in which the team exists. I also plan to explore the reasons why we act and react the way we do in group settings - ranging from personality types, orders and disorders, IQ and EQ, and may even crawl into a little Freud to discuss his views from his second essay, "Group Psychology and Analysis and the Ego" to address "the mental dynamic that holds together the individuals in a group, creates the group's forms, ensures its continuity and stability, or causes its disappearance, otherwise known as the morphodynamics of groups".
That all sounds great - so why should we care? I believe the ability to assess not only your own "current state" but that of other individuals and groups is critical to your ability to effectively lead, especially in those project environments where you are given the responsibility to make things happen without the benefit of actual management of the team that is performing the work, or leadership sans the authority...stay tuned!
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