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Mellacheruvu Adi Saasthry
Director, India
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The 4C's of an Ideal Project Manager
To be excellent, a project manager should be:
- Communicative - Communication is the artery of any project and information is the blood that should flow seamlessly. The PM has to be communicative to all levels of the organization who are involved. It is not just to be communicative, but communicate effectively the right information at the right time to all the stakeholders of a project.
- Collaborative - Projects are a joint intellectual effort of many minds. The PM should lead any activity in a project and should take a collaborative approach. For example when adopting this approach, the PM is involving the client in project activities from the beginning, indirectly getting a buy-in. It becomes easier for the client to take decisions in any activity and overall it saves time in the project.
- Committed - This can make or break lots of decisions and has a tremendous impact on the project, and on the relationships and trust between the PM and various other constituents. A PM, once committed to a deliverable or a milestone, can never go back. By sticking to a commitment he builds relationship and trust.
- Creative - Customers are quenched with creative meaningful ideas that help them to meet the business or competitive market needs. The PM should be in the forefront with creativity in dealing with client’s problems or requirements. Also, he should be creative in leading the team. Problems do creep in a project, but the PM should be creative with array of new ideas to deal with them.
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Foure-Joopen Helga, France
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Add Extra C's: Coordination and Concentration
The four C's indicated above could perhaps be comp...
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Peruch
Management Consultant, Belgium
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The Ideal Project Manager is a Leader
Mr Saasthry,
I like your points, what you tell us...
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Leonard Stewart, United States
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Add Extra C: Cool
I would add another C: Cool, as in cool under pres...
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Asad Ali
Manager, Pakistan
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Add Extra C: Caring
Agreed, but I would add yet another C for Caring, ...
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alice fernandes, Kuwait
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Establishing an Ideal Project Team
Very good points are listed but very rare to find ...
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Shankar Lakkaraju, India
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Caring / Empathy
@Asad Ali : I agree with Caring; without empathy t...
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Mohamed Hisham, Sri Lanka
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The Ideal Project Manager
It becomes clear reading the above that the subjec...
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umesh bahadur, India
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Add Extra C: Couragious
Great. I would like to add courage in taking decis...
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Frank Yost, United States
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Leadership
@Asad Ali : I could not agree with you more. Peopl...
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Macil Eddy, United States
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Add Extra C: Centered
What about centered as in centered on the end goal...
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isaiah
Accountant, Kenya
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Extra C: Cost Effectiveness
Cost effectiveness is also key. Cost-time tradeoff...
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Madan Gopal Agarwal
Business Consultant, India
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Behavioural Traits for a Good Project Manager
Good and useful summary of behavioural traits for ...
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Prof. Dr. Karl Kuhn, Azerbaijan
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4 C's are Good, But Other Qualities are Needed as Well
I agree that these are prerequisites supporting pr...
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wil son chnyamurindi
Zimbabwe
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To Succeed as a Project Manager
Over and above all else, the PM should visualise t...
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Tom Smulders
Business School Marketer, Netherlands
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The 4C's of a Project Manager
Very good points, I wish I had realized it earlier...
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Mark Song
Manager, China
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Add Extra C: Customer Oriented
I would like to add another C: customer-oriented. ...
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aurelian cojocaru, Romania
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Project Manager should be C-L-E-A-R
To complete the picture, there is also the CLEAR a...
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Ioannis Chassiotis, Greece
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Requirements for Effective Project Manager
The above mentioned 4C's can equally apply to effe...
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James Kimani Mwaura
Manager, Kenya
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Project Management Tools
On a basic level, the project manager should also ...
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Shadrack Ashibo Atanda, Kenya
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Project Manager Traits
I totally agree with the above C's.. enlightening!...
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Rannona A Rantao, South Africa
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Project Manager and Transformational Leadership
I agree with the various comments on the required ...
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Roller Saint Pierre, Haiti
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Ad Extra C: Culturally Oriented
What about "culturally oriented". A PM must unders...
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Robin Lahiri, United Kingdom
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On Extra C: Centered on Goals
@Macil Eddy: I couldn't agree more.
In many organ...
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Mohd Alduwaihees
Strategy Consultant, Kuwait
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Add Extra C: Candid
I would like to add another c (candid) telling the...
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Marco Brandimarte
Project Manager, Italy
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Add Extra C: Coherent
Coherence increases reliability of relationship an...
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Nzuza, South Africa
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On: Client-oriented
@Mark Song : Mark, I agree.
As a project manager,...
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francisco, Brazil
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Consider Replacing Collaborative by Cooperative
I think, instead of, collaborative, you should put...
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COL SUNDER LALVANI
Coach, India
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An Ideal Project Manager: Before the 4 C's
I would rate leadership as the most essential char...
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Mellacheruvu Adi Saasthry
Director, India
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THANKS FOR ALL YOUR INPUTS !
Thank you to all of you, it pays really to enrich ...
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Maia de Lourdes Larrea, Ecuador
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On Extra C: Care / Caring
@Asad Ali : For Saasthry's 4 C's, the most importa...
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Bergmann
Business Consultant, Germany
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Caring? Project Manager must be Passionate too
Talking about caring... from my point of view a pr...
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Andile Ace Kwakweni
Project Manager, South Africa
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4 C's of an Ideal Project Manager
Just about every "additional" comment and "counter...
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Alexander Weihs, Germany
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Extra C: Coach
I like these 4C's and would like to suggest anothe...
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Alberto, Spain
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The Project Manager Should Be a Good Finisher too
I agree with many of above opinions. Additionally ...
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Ana Gonzalez
Mexico
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Culture Matters
@Roller Saint Pierre : I agree. Culture is another...
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Oscar Pinto
Project Manager, Portugal
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Add Extra C: Competent
I would like to add another C. Competent: a compet...
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Kerr
Manager, Ireland
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Add Extra C: Consistency
How about consistent? What I mean is that a PM mus...
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Maria Montero
Coach, Venezuela
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The Human Part!
I agree with everything said here. In my short exp...
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Oscar Tobar
Consultant, Guatemala
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4C + Time, Costs and Quality
I agree totally with these four fields of a PM´s b...
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John A. Williams
Project Manager, Netherlands
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4C's are Keys to Success in Project Management
It's good to see that more attention is being give...
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Joel Nicaragua, Nicaragua
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On Courage
@Umesh Bahadur: You are totally right. What we alw...
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Ana Lilly Sander Padilla, Mexico
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So.... The 12 C's of a Perfect Project Manager...
I was reading all of your your comments, and I tho...
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M Johnson
Management Consultant, Australia
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Combine 4 C's of an Ideal Project Manager with the 7S as a Checklist
I like this. Perhaps the 4 c's could be combined w...
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nan zeng, China
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Using the Cs for Selecting a Project Manager
In my opinion, it is necessary to determine the fe...
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Anwar Saleem, Pakistan
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Caring - Passionate > Motivating
@Bergmann: caring here doesn't mean pampering, car...
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Reshma Sreedharan
Teacher, India
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Extra C: Conscientious
The 4 C's mentioned are the core of being a succes...
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Anwar Saleem, Pakistan
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Technically Prepared - Skilled
@Maria Lairet: I agree, being technically prepared...
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Dilip Khanal
CEO, Nepal
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More Project Manager Traits...
It seems that we are stuck with Cs as Shaastri ini...
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Bergmann
Business Consultant, Germany
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Caring & Passionate
@Anwar Saleem:
Yes, your are right. I agree with ...
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bhusan, India
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Essential Traits in the Form of 12 Cs
@Ana Lilly Sander Padilla:
I think you summarized...
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Heather Jones, New Zealand
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4 C's in Practice?
The C's sound good in theory, but how do they actu...
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V SHRIDHAR
Consultant, India
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Creating Team Spirit
The 4Cs are definitely the most important qualitie...
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Paolo Mazzoni, Italy
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Managing Customer's Change Requests
All interesting and valid opinions. In my experien...
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Mahmoud, Saudi Arabia
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Catalyzation ~ Caring
I would like to add Catalyzation which is very nea...
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Sam Oum
Director, Cambodia
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Add Extra C: Concluding
Concluding is also one of the most important C's f...
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John Moses
Manager, Nigeria
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Extra C: Current
In my own opinion, the list is ending. Apart from ...
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Thanks for This Nice Discussion
Thanks Mr. Saasthry for the 4C's and all other con...
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