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Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo, CDT, PMP, CCE, MScPM, is Director of the ASEAN Project Manager's Center of Excellence, Inc. (APMX) For over 12 years, he has been providing project Management training and consulting throughout SE Asia. He is active in the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE); Construction Specifications Institute (CSI); Construction Management Association of America, (CMAA) and serves on the Global Project Management Forum Steering Committee. Email: pauldg@attglobal.net.
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John Suermondt has 19 years experience in selection, recruitment, leadership
development and succession planning. John is a senior HR Management Consultant
with specialized expertise in individual assessment related to position analysis
based on the individual companies' corporate requirements. He has been based in
Asia for the last 30 years advising international companies, conglomerates, and
national companies on how to optimize their human capital by leveraging their
deep understanding of human resources to maximizing their individual talents. Email: john@harrisonassessments.com
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Introduction
I am a lifelong project manager with some 40 years of project management
experience most of which come from construction project management. And over those
years, I have noticed that some people are just naturally better project managers
than others.
Looking back and having spent most of my life working around the world, it
didn't seem to matter whether those people were engineers, men or women, what
country they called home, what language they spoke nor how they worshipped their
God. It also didn't seem to matter what astrological sign they were born under,
nor did it appear obvious that those who were naturally good carried lucky talismans.
And most certainly, it didn't matter if they did or did not have PMP, PRINCE2,
MBA or PhD behind their name!! So what is that elusive "something" that make some
people just "natural" project managers?
When I began my PhD research to the answer the question: "Is project management
a profession? And if not, what is it?" I intended to include in part of that research
a chapter on behavioral attributes. However, as with many projects, time and quality
constraints won out and I had to "de-scope" and the part that got omitted was
my research into behavioral attributes. Nevertheless, that was only a temporary
diversion and now, with my PhD in hand, I am resurrecting my interest in this
topic.
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