This document provides 10 tips for effective project management from Beatriz García. The tips include having clearly defined goals and roles, good communication that involves all team members, allowing for diversity of perspectives among team members, managing conflicts constructively, creating a supportive atmosphere through leadership, adaptive planning, and coordinating talents toward common goals. Famous quotes are provided for each tip relating concepts like decision making, participation, and motivation.

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Project Management. Ten Tips

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Tip 1. Clearly defined goals and
objectives
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Tip 2. Clearly defined roles
 If you don’t know where you’re going, no road will take you
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Tip 3. Good communication
 Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve
me and I'll understand [Chinese Proverb]
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Tip 4. Decisions
 Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than
being able to decide. [Napolean Buonaparte]
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Tip 5. Participation
 We ourselves feels that we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
[Mother Teresa of Calcutta]
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Tip 6. Diversity
 Valued diversity is at the heart of building a team. Team
members are valued for the unique contributions that they
bring to the team.
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Tip 7. Managing conflicts
 May the pain you have known and the conflict you have
experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing
each new situation with courage and optimism.
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Tip 8. Atmosphere & Project
Management role
 Project managers function as bandleaders who pull together
their players each a specialist with individual score and
internal rhythm. Under the leader's direction, they all respond
to the same beat. [L.R. Sayles]
B  True motivation comes from achievement, personal
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a development, job satisfaction, and recognition. [Frederick
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Tip 9. Scheduling & Planning
 Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but
let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of
circumstances. [Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist]
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Tip 10. Leadership
 “Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the
talents of those who work for us and pointing them towards a
certain goal.” [Walt Disney]
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Project Management. Ten Tips