Much has been written and said about leadership within the world of general management. However, are there aspects of managing projects that make leadership an even more critical and challenging skill?

Increasingly the project management community is debating the role of leadership within projects, having realised that the plethora of systems, processes, procedures and IT software created in the past couple of decades is still not guaranteeing a successful project outcome.

Is project leadership the key skill that has been missing our attention?