Mastering the Leadership Role in Project Management
In late December 1995, I got a call to come in and talk to one of
my bosses at the Eglin Air Force Base. At the time, I was program
manager for the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) missile. As soon
as I got there, I was informed that I was being switched off JDAM to
run the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program, and I
wasn’t happy about it at all...“I knew that at JASSM, I would have to
start over and would probably have to cope with a more difficult environment.
The original program manager of JASSM... was given two
major mandates. The first was not...
