What makes a project successful?

If you are given a mandate to lead a program/project to a successful outcome you must forget about your ego, looking silly or misunderstood by your immediate environment, instead, follow simple steps that will reveal their strength only after combined into a massive pyramid-like structure within few months. Do not fear failure and do not stop. The detailed recipe can be found in the article by Thomas July cited bellow.

The secret is a team leadership and environment of learning and collaboration. Nobody waiting to be heard but all team members working towards the same vision creating results as a by-pruduct (and maybe some innovations along the way).

Juli, T. (2011). The five team leadership principles for project success. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2011—North America, Dallas, TX. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. here to edit.