TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Project outcomes depend on the way individuals and groups are organized and interact. As human endeavors, projects are both influenced by and have influence on the behavior and well-being of the groups and individuals that belong to them.
The first three chapters in this section focus on the major organizational and behavioral issues surrounding the management of projects and the teams and individuals that comprise them. They describe the ways that groups are organized into projects, styles of leadership used by project managers, roles and responsibilities of project team members, and ways groups and individuals are managed to increase effectiveness and reduce the negative consequences of working in projects.
Chapter 17 discusses failure and success in the practice of project management. It summarizes lessons learned and ties together the major topics and tenets of the book.
How can you expect to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
Organizations are systems of human and physical elements interacting to achieve goals. As with all types of systems, organizations are partly described by their structure the form of relationships that bond their elements.
In all organizations two kinds of structures coexist. One is the formal structure, the published one that describes normative superior-subordinate relationships, chains of command, and subdivisions and grouping of...
