Projekte Sicher Managen : Wiley-VCH : 9783527502554 : 3527502556 : 06 Jun 2007 : According to various studies, only very few projects add to the value of a company. Many are even destined to fail from the start. Yet projects do not usually fail due to the methods and instruments, but due to people. Successful project management requires a corporate culture of reliability, trust, communication, team-oriented leadership and an entrepreneurial philosophy. Here, the authors show in a very impressive and practical way the influence of corporate culture on the success of a project, and how project leaders can make their projects a success despite "pathological cultural elements", such as departmental thinking, mistrust, alibi-behavior or unreliability. It is against this background that the four factors for success in project management are explained - project efficacy, project efficiency, project participation and project management. In so doing, they describe useful instruments and approac