Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

5.3.1 Project Manager as a Leader
A successful project manager has the ability to lead a team composed of 
individuals with different skill sets, personalities, and levels of experi-
ence. The team members may have also worked on different projects and 
Figure 5.3 Effects of clarity and cloudy for objective, vision and mission to the 
project team.

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in different organizational structures. As a project manager, you must 
overcome different cultural barriers and create a spirit of cooperation and 
coordination of efforts.
It is clear that the project manager must have some qualities and skills, 
which can be clarified and summarized as follows:
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexibility in work and acceptance of changes
• Training on the tools and techniques of project management
• The potential to direct every member of the project to 
achieve the objectives of the project
• Respect from senior management
• The ability to make quick decisions
• The ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems
• An entrepreneur mentality and work ethic and a governing 
of the general rules as role models
• Self-confidence
• Experience in procedures and project management tools
• Motivation to achieve success
There are two ways to manage individuals: through direct orders and 
sharp resolution of a centralized dictatorship or through democracy, 
which is the dialogue and discussion of ideas and analysis to issue com-
mands. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages, but the project 
leader must determine how things will operate with the ability to change 
to another method easily.
Central decision or dictatorship is important in the case of a project that 
needs speed in implementation, depending on the importance and activity, 
which also generally depends on the nature of the project as a whole and 
must take into consideration the people who work with you and the nature 
of their personalities.
In many instances, this method is very successful, but it may fail 
with others, as well as by the general atmosphere of the project. For 
example, when there are good relations between individuals and there 
is a time for discussion, why not use the other way, a way of democracy 
to consider the views of individuals and make them reach the solution 
that you want. Control discussion, but let them feel that they are the 
owners of the idea. This would reach an amazing result, as the owner 
of the idea will try to forcefully demonstrate that it is a successful idea, 
and this is what serves the project as a whole and, thus, matches with 
the project goal.

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