THE HIDDEN POWER: A NEW PRACTICAL METHOD TO SAVE MONEY AND REACH GOALS IN PM

There is a striking power which is a hidden part of Project Management: it has been disregarded for ages. The authors will show you how to find it out and especially on how to apply it in your daily life, to save money and get solid results in your PM activities. In fact, the emerging discipline of Intercultural Project Management meets today’s urgent need for specific knowledge and experience when working with culturally diverse teams in joint global business and development projects. Research studies show that managerial methods and behaviors are strongly influenced by each manager’s national and cultural background. The authors believe that the most flexible PM structural approach is that which moulds and shapes its components and real practices in what the authors call “Culture Sensitive Project Management”: cultural reflections cast a richer light on even the most advanced PM practices. The result is a new project management approach which is truly able to adapt in order to maximize ways of reaching its goals, based both on the outcomes of research and on practical experience. Culture can be a powerful way to create value and competitive advantage for individuals, teams and organizations, and it is possible to demonstrate in practice how to make this happen and provide cultural profitability for more advanced and successful project management.