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Evidence-based research in project management has shown that soft or people management skills contribute significantly to a successful project and project suc-cess. However, most project management books treat people as a part of the overall project management knowledge, paying insufficient attention to people manage-ment skills. Given that project organizations are made up of people and teams drawn from outside and inside the parent organizations, we feel that people man-agement skills require special attention to build cohesive high-performance teams. Projects also require skills and effort from multiple disciplines and at multiple levels to develop project deliverables. Therefore, this book is structured to cover people skills and competencies from a micro-, meso-, and macro-lens.

Project managers play an important role in executing the project, and they are likely to perform well if their personal characteristics meet the requirements of the roles in a project. Knowing oneself, becoming aware of one’s values and person-ality as well as skills is a sure way of enhancing project performance. Therefore, at the micro-level, this book examines a range of personal project management competencies needed for managing oneself and others such as personality style, cognitive skills, and emotional intelligence in a project environment. The micro-sections of the book will also include useful discussions on available tools for managing the emotions of self and others effectively. This part of the book is written by Profs. Upasna A. Agarwal and Karuna Jain.

Projects are executed in teams, as project tasks require expertise, skills, knowl-edge, judgement, and experience in multiple disciplines. At the meso-level, the book discusses basic team structure and managing a variety of teams used in projects such as virtual teams, project teams, and domain-specific teams. These skills will help to enhance productivity and manage the accountability of a project. The book also discusses processes, techniques, and tools to manage and enhance the performance of project teams; team process which include structure, culture, supporting systems, performance, and incentive systems that can impact team productivity. In addition, to the soft skills recommended by project management bodies of knowledge, we also plan to include the people management issues related to multigenerational teams (which are challenges that project managers face these days). This part of the book is written by Prof. Vittal Anantatmula.