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Vagabond Tales: Can Travel Writers Take A Normal Vacation?
I know what you're thinking. Travel writers are always on vacation, so what a silly concept for an article.
Sure, climbing active volcanoes in Chile and staying in castles in Ireland sounds like an enjoyable time, and often times, it is.
But it isn't exactly a normal vacation.
When others might be bathing on the sundeck of a dive boat on the Great Barrier Reef, travel writers instead find themselves interviewing the boat crew on the proper method for dealing with an irukandgi sting, lest they report an inaccuracy on one of the world's deadliest creatures.
Or, when returning from four days in the Andes after having climbed over Peru's Salkantay Pass, vacationing members of your tour group are enjoying $10/hour leg massages while you instead find yourself panting in the thin air of Cuzco in an effort to find an Internet connection because the four days in the Andes have left you woefully behind on deadlines.
Then, of course, there's the electronic merry-go-round of attempting to keep all your gear charged. As the travel world gets sucked deeper into the shrunken screen of a smartphone, so too must travel writers add more tools to their yak hair belt. Writer, photographer, videographer, researcher, coder, Webmaster, blogger, ad sales director, marketer and, of course, social media ninja.
This constant juggle of responsibilities invariably leads to such pleasurable experiences as sifting through the markets of Pulau Bintan looking for a new adapter, clandestinely blogging from a van parked outside of a New Zealand McDonalds (free HotSpot!), buying camera lenses from a questionable Thai gangster in Bangkok and avoiding strange looks as you send emails from inside the airport bathroom because you're on yet another six hour layover and it's the only outlet in the whole damn airport.
Exciting? Yes. A vacation? No. Believe it or not, it's actually a lot of work.
Which is why, on a recent cross-country road trip, I was bound and determined to simply take a normal vacation.
Thinking I had gotten it out of my system, the itch struck me again the next evening while grabbing a stout at the Broadway Brewhouse in Nashville.
When most normal people would simply enjoy the beer and figure out which bands they wanted to hear that night, I instead found myself crunching numbers in my head about how many breweries I would have to visit every day to write a book featuring every microbrewery in America (Answer: 5.82).
Similarly, later that night, instead of simply enjoying the music of Nashville's hopping honky tonks, I instead found myself wracked with guilt for not compiling a "first-timer's guide to Nashville honky-tonkin."
And although I did better in Paducah, Kentucky, with only a ten-minute stop to take notes on the history of shipping on the Ohio River, I failed miserably once again about 90 minutes south of St. Louis when I learned about a winery inside of a cave.
"C'mon, it's only a 15-minute detour," I pleaded with my wife.
"Yeah, one-way."
"But I really want to see this." (Translation: This is the perfect topic for an article.)
And so the notepad came out once again, its tattered edges failing to collect dust in the way I had originally planned. A brief interview here, a few snaps of the camera there, and a sudden urge to a do a ten-part series on the oft-forgotten wine trail of the Ozarks. Sigh.
The problem for writers, I think, lies in our inquisitive nature. Towns on a map are not simply towns on a map; they are places with histories and stories to tell, and to pass by even a single place without uncovering its story is to commit the greatest form of travel sin. Rest and relaxation be damned, I want to learn about this place. And this one. And that one ...
This thirst for not only knowledge, but the ability to compile and share that knowledge is not logistically amenable to a 4,300-mile road trip. The logical reality is that you can't delve into the story of every single place you pass, and unfortunately, places are going to have to be skipped.
Which is why it was so painstakingly difficult to make the decision to pass by the 100th anniversary of the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri in favor of making it to the 100th anniversary of the Wyoming State Fair in the ranching outpost of Douglas, Wyoming.
The deciding factor was that one featured a Dierks Bentley concert and the other one didn't. Bypassing 900 miles of towns and their associated stories (Lincoln, Nebraska: "What It Means To Be A Cornhusker", Chimney Rock: "Oregon Trail Icons" and Ogallala, Nebraska: "Towns You Can't Pronounce And Have No Need To Go To"), I eventually wound up at a KOA campground on the outskirts of Douglas en route to a jam-packed country music concert.
"OK, Kyle," I told myself. "You're going to enjoy yourself like a regular traveler for a day. You're not going to take videos of the concert and post them to your YouTube channel, you're not going to research the 100-year history of the fair, and despite Douglas having been voted one of the 'Best 100 small towns in America,' you aren't going to write an article detailing the friendly atmosphere of the main street diners where refillable mugs of coffee are still $.75 and ranchers gather for breakfast at 9 a.m. even though they've already fixed 12 fences and have been up since 2:45. And whatever you do, you're not going to research how Douglas is officially known as the home of the 'jackalope,' and how hunting permits are sold for the jackalope hunting season, which runs on June 31 from midnight-2 a.m. Got it?"
"You're also not going to draft quick posts about the happy hour special at Snake River Brewery that features three different types of meat (beef, elk, and buffalo), about where are the best places for encountering buffalo in Yellowstone National Park, or about how the Beartooth Highway was justifiably named by Charles Kuralt as the 'most beautiful road in America.'"
You won't do an expose on the Sunday afternoon pig races of Red Lodge, MT, tweet about the best places to stand-up paddle in Seattle, transcribe Lewis and Clark quotes from their famed landing in Long Beach, WA, or take any videos whatsoever while hiking the Hoh Rainforest of Olympic National Park or of touring the wine country of Oregon's Willamette Valley."
"You're just going to put the computer away, put the notepad away, and try to enjoy yourself like an every day tourist. OK? The history of the Modoc Indians and digging in to the hippie/yuppie dichotomy of Mendocino, CA, can wait for another time."
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Jan Ross Oct 22nd 2012 10:29AM
So, so true! I think about writing a story on just about every single experience I have when traveling - I don't think we can help it. It's impossible for me to just have a vacation any longer. I still enjoy travel though. I just have to tell about everything!
Jan Ross
Anne Edris Oct 24th 2012 8:31AM
I can relate to Paducah, Kentucky. When I was a kid my father had a 4-seater Piper Cherakee plane located in Bluffton, Indiana. The landing strip was carved out of a neighboring corn field. Soybeans when the season changed.
The radar had gone out in Paducah and the ceilings were low. My father declared an emergency, which I found very exciting, anticipating the outcome. My mother did not! We followed the largest single lane road leading to the airport, barely above the telephone poles. And landed safely. I had the utmost confidence in my father to keep me safe. I know my mother wants to forget this even happened. But I got to ride in the front seat of a fire truck! A fire truck! I just went through heaven and there was a truck waiting for me. Red and shiny. It was a great view. One I will never forget.
This single experience is why it's important to travel.
Forget the vacation.
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Christie Nov 12th 2012 2:05PM
Wow, you covered so much in this article--so multi-layered and informative! I share your 'dilemma.' Around every corner is a story to be unearthed in one's wanderings. The important thing is, did you come away with at least one new tidbit of info or one lasting experience to add to your storehouse of traveling knowledge?
Adventure Travel Nick Jan 1st 2013 11:59PM
There have been a few times when I've forced myself to leave the camera behind and just go. If I don't, I'm shooting content and the people I'm with begin to get annoyed that I spend all my time planning features about what I'm seeing rather than spending time with them enjoying it in the real world.


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A recent report from Stanford University claims that human beings are less smart and emotionally stable than their cave-dwelling forebears. This is clearly nonsense. There were only three bears.
I read the report on a news website. The date was 11/13/2012. For a second this made me think the content was accurate and I was so thick I had missed the memo adding a thirteenth month to the year. Then I realised it was a US website, with their back-to-front calendar, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Given the content of the report, its author Geraldine Crabtree probably should have published it as a children's book with illustrations rather than an academic document. Instead, she confounded us numbskulls with complicated sentences such as: "I would be willing to wager that if an average citizen of Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions."
Phew, not me then, just the people I work and hang out with. (I'd put a winky emoticon thingy after that joke but I wouldn't want to prove Crabtree incorrect by showing her how we clever-clog humans have evolved punctuation into sign language. OK, perhaps it's coming at the slow expense of words, but let's not quibble. I'm not smart enough to quibble. Dribble, on the other hand . . . not a problem.)
The reason for our alleged dumbing down, Crabtree explains and The Huffington Post reports, is because "in our comfortable world, evolutionary pressures are far less intense, leading to a higher preponderance of dumber people".
Bloody Woolworths. If I had to catch my dinner with a spear I'd be a Rhodes Scholar.
I had to look up the word "preponderance" in the dictionary. I know, I know, that wise old bastard from Athens wouldn't have had to. He wouldn't have time. He'd be too busy pulling out his hair and yelling "What the fetta have you done with the economy?! It was working perfectly when we were swapping goats!"
Why Crabtree would use a word like "preponderance" in a report she believed she was handing to human half-bricks is beyond me. But lots of things are beyond me according to the report.
Here's what's beyond me when it comes to 21st-century humanity:
1) We design computers that make human beings redundant. I would understand this if computers got married, needed to raise families or go to the dentist. But the last time I checked, apart from an episode of The Goodies in which Graeme Garden married his PC, computers don't actually feel anything. Even when you belt them because they're not working properly, they won't be in the least bit inclined to take out a restraining order against you. Sure, we can use them to our advantage, but to factor ourselves out of the equation at every opportunity seems like a Crabtree idea to me.
2) We measure the worth of things in financial terms. Culturally, this could be costly. The National Library is as "valuable" a building as the Royal Australian Mint.
3) We have made the cost of putting a roof over our heads extortionate. It wasn't enough to have one home. We needed two, three, four . . . Housing became a way to make money rather than to keep the rain off. Property investment portfolios became the chit-chat at barbecues and before we could say "Is that an organic sausage?" we were looking up terms like "negative equity" in the dictionary. After "preponderance", of course.
4) We know literacy levels are suffering yet we don't read between the lines of the effect this will have on future generations.
5) We aren't prioritising the quality of our children's education.
6) We know our children are becoming more idle and less healthy because they're living in cyberspace rather than real space. We solve this by equipping them with iPads to lighten their school bags. Surely we should be weighing them down. Making them carry more. Giving them a bit of a workout.
7) We have blind faith in technology. (See point 1).
8) We didn't put the bankers who caused the GFC in prison.
9) We know that gambling compromises the integrity of sport yet it's a sure bet we won't do anything about it. (See point 2).
10) We didn't put the person who invented automated phone-menus in a windowless room and deny him/her of oxygen.
That is all beyond my comprehension. So Crabtree's right - I must be stupid.
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dopey_ninja says:
Everywhere you go it's on display, not so useful people.
Back in earlier days lots of these people would have been larders on legs for leaner times or at the very least, bait! lol
Mahhrat says:
I've got a sneaking suspicion that this is an apex fallacy. The BEST from 1000 years ago would be incredibly intellectually active - those lucky few who had the resources to live a studious life.
Most people were peasantry, who never had an education except in whatever trade they did. That was all they did. The married within their village.
No. The Renaissance and the tech revolution have provided education possibilities the ancient world could only dream of. It is up to us to take advantage of them.
What we're doing wrong is not educating our children, and as I said elsewhere this morning, it's because parents now expect schools to raise their children, as well as impart knowledge.
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I see you mention Woolies Chris and that might get you some freebies but do not expect the same from Coles or any of the IGAs and others etc.
Meanwhile, there may be a great preponderance to consider that the more than three quarter bricks will have capacity to deal with it whilst too many quarter bricks might wander about and under Golden Arches, a bit cave like those, keep licking fingers and maybe that comes from our cave peoples mannerisms Hannibal would have been proud of even if he didn't make it to Rome or Athens.
All things are circular or cyclical in a way and you only have to consider the wheel from the Romans and how much easier that would have made life for the great pyramid slaves and then for perpetuity we have the Pizzas, much better as a wheel shape than that square look.
And so life continues around and around until things get short on supply, a bit like a tape measure not being able to get around the expanding girths of many brick heads I should say rather than disparage brickies by a preponderance to slang.
Geoff Russell says:
Crabtree should have googled "The Flynn Effect" before writing her report. But it's hard sometimes to appreciate the difference between intelligence and knowledge, the latter being highly specialised and uneven. Do you, for example, know how your microwave oven works?
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"A recent report from Stanford University claims that human beings are less smart and emotionally stable than their cave-dwelling forebears"
You just need to look at the opposition leader for proof of this. Even the archaic and fumbling decision process is testament to their neanderthalensis. Their first policy discussion paper should be how to make a wheel, however they will go around in circles but not produce a thing.
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Dear Chris,
The phrase "We have blind faith in technology" explains a lot to me.
It helps me understand how some people can think that science is a religion and faith is required. We don't need to understand the Standard Quantum Model in order to use a computer.
Unfortunately, it seems to me that this allows some of us to argue against a scientific principle or theory without understanding it, or even being able to describe it. The Greenhouse Effect seems to me to be one such example.
acotrel says:
The reason that we appear to be less emotionally stable these days, is that most of us are delusional.
"The system runs on bullshit, and bullshit baffles brains'. - except when the bullshit is assessed by someone with a cold unemotional scfientific brain. It would be interesting to expose Abbott's crap to assessment by a mob of scientists at a conference .
Joan Bennett says:
Could it be because life is so easy now, we don't have to exercise our brains to solve that many problems anymore? Use it or lose it, perhaps?
A Dose of Reality says:
The crux of the original article seems to have been lost here.
It basically re-iterates the old saying "we stand on the shoulders of giants" and applies it to society in general.
There is no doubt that we as a society have a greater store of knowledge than our ancestors. However that simply means that instead of solving a problem - all we need to do is search out=r collective store of such knowledge for teh answer.
This promotes research rather than problem solving.
For example - could today's architects, engineers and tradesmen construct a building without blueprints? Not just a square 'box' but something with mathematical symmetry and of beauty?
The answer is, naturally, of course not. Yet the builders of the parthenon did. Without our store technology. Because their training centered on the ability to THINK. Our systems teach the ability to research (basically to copy).
University courses today are predominately vocationally based - they are 'useful' because they are 'related to' or 'lead to' a 'profession'.
The pure educational aspect of higher education (think the BA in Arts) is now more and more derided (as 'business' thinks it a ;waste'). As a result, spin is dumber and dumber - yet the population still sucks it in and believes it!
An educated person from the victorian era would be amazed at how we are so blind - I'm sure. (Then again, they used to build steam engines without plans - just a knowledge of the physical principles).
Fotis says:
Fetta and Goats really! Democracy, astronomy, cynicism, nihilism, medicine, economics, literature, history, and every other bloody thing you manipulate to come up with 'funny' quips and you end up aligning Greeks to 'goats and fetta'! Clearly she's right in your case.
Idiocy reigns supreme it seems among the barbarians!
Achmed says:
We use technology to replace people then complain about the unemployment, lack of service etc…..
Tubesteak says:
Has no-one mentioned Idiocracy, yet? That is where we're headed despite the protestations of a cracked.com article trying to state that our average IQ remains roughly the same.
Life will be perfect when robots do everything for us. We won't need to work. We can sit around doing whatever we like. There will be no need for money because the entire supply chain will be managed and controlled by robots who will be our servants.
At this stage though we do, thankfully, measure everything by its financial worth. This is a measure of its contribution to the bottom line. If it's not making a contribution then it's not mcuh worth.
Blame the lack of supply and our need to live close to work for the high cost of housing. Housing will only devalue once supply is increased (local councils and residents stop whining about high-rise buildings) or we develop a better train system that runs all over the city and I can get from Penrith to the CBD in less than 30 minutes. I won't be forced to live near the city. Also blame the tax system that taxes people again and again. If I save some of my after-tax income and put it into a savings acocunt I shouldn't have to pay tax on the interest it earns. Don't blame negative gearing. If you remove negative gearing I'll raise the rent I charge on my invesmtnet properties to cover the outgoings. In a market of <2% vacancy rate you won't have a chance to move anywhere else and you'll only find their rent has increased too.
BTW It wasn't bankers that caused the GFC. It was the US government fuelling a property bubble by creating their own lending institutions and an environment where reckless loans were par for course. The government did this over successive regimes to placate the indolent lazy selfsih people who wanted the "American dream". Take a look at a speech delivered by Dubya in 2002 where he basically stated this.
Sam says:
A recent report from Stanford University claims that human beings are less ... emotionally stable than their cave-dwelling forebears"
Social media is dragging us down into a cesspit.
the phantom says:
lostinperth says:10:09am | 05/03/13
Its all Abbott's fault @
Nailed it in one Good work———————it is all the Mad Monks fault!!
What is most scary about this person is that he can't get through a sentence without twisting things or outright lieing. It's like he is contantly spinning everything to try to manipulate people's perception. he'd lies about things it makes no sense to lie about.
When he speaks without thinking, he says what he thinks.
Seriously the MAD mONK should plead contemporary insanity.
Fair dinkum Abbott has delusions of adequacy.
the phantom says:
According to a new DNA study, most humans have a little Neanderthal in them—at least 1 to 4 percent of a person's genetic makeup.
In the Mad Monks case it is more like 75%
LC says:
"We didn't put the bankers who caused the GFC in prison."
How is it fair to put people following a law that mandated sub-prime loans into prison? They'd end up fined, closed down or imprisoned if they didn't, you know.
Put the blame at the heels of those who enacted the laws, where it belongs.
Richard says:
Acotrel's answer to Life, the Universe and everything. "The system runs on bullshit." Not exactly scientific for a person of Acotrels proclaimed experience.
GammaGlobulin says:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." This is a quote by Socrates or Plato or some other ancient philosopher dude. The point is that Crabtree is not saying anything that has not been said before over the last few thousand years. In fact she makes the annoying misstake of assuming all Athenians were Socrates, rather than being the vast majority who condemned him to death because it was better blaming the old weirdo for their defeat at the hands of the Spartans than facing a reality that would be critical of them collectively.
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aqui says:
02:31pm | 05/03/13
You mad bro? Because it seems to me you are bro. Whats the matter? @@mad as cut snake just like yuor beloved leader Pastor Abboat.
hah hah hah
Tanya says:
Not sure if this is anything to do with the theory but I witnessed a phenomenon on the train this morning.Two horizontal bench seats that spanned half a carriage were taken up with students sitting in a rows, interacting incessantly with i-phones and other networking devices. An alarming number of them were bug eyed and slack jawed. They are the next generation of academics.
stephen says:
That list of 10 are symptoms of, I think, Globalization, and, specifically, how we get so much information every day about matters that should not, and do not, affect us, and as a consequence, we have to think largely of things out of our control : such an act devoids us of a responsibility that we know we cannot resolve ; we lose good social skills, then, because if we keep them, then we become instruments in our own demise.
Happy birthday doomsday.
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TPM Special Issue
Guest Editor: Nicholas Clarke
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30th June 2011
Team Performance Management has established a strong reputation over a number of years for publishing high quality research that examines the 'soft' or human side of projects. This parallels developments in our understanding of the importance of team processes and relationship management as 'critical' factors associated with project effectiveness (Cooke-Davis 2002; Hodgson & Cicmil 2008).
Within this area of research, increasingly attention is being targeted on the specific area of leadership. To date, contributions in this area have offered insights into the relevance of leadership style as an area of particular significance for project contexts (Clarke 2010a; Keller 2006; Strang 2005;); how different leadership behaviours are more relevant for different types or stages of a project (Muller & Turner 2007; Weinkauf & Hoegl 2002; Thambain 2004), perspectives on the functions of leadership in projects (Cobb 2006); the leadership behaviours of top performers in projects (Hacker 2000; Skipper & Bell 2006); leadership issues in virtual projects (Andres 2002; Oertig & Buergi 2006) as well as the relationship between leadership and project effectiveness or success (Heinz et al 2006; Yang, Huang, & Wu 2010).
One of the more interesting aspects of this body of work is seeking to understand more about how the specific context of a particular project may influence the nature of leadership. Norman, Khan & Ehsan (2010) for example found that project virtuality moderated relationships between leadership and empowerment, whilst increasing complexity in projects may place boundary conditions on the significance of transformational leadership behaviours (Keegan & Den Hartog 2004). This suggests the traditional, functionalist approach to leadership commonly found within project management texts (and the project management body of knowledge) may in fact becoming increasingly divorced from the reality of how projects operate in practice. At the same time, elsewhere in the project management literature attention to other but related soft aspects of project management such as the role of emotions (Clarke 2010b; Lindebaum 2010; Peslak 2005), trust (Maurer 2010), commitment (Gattiker & Carter 2010) and social capital (Tansley & Huang 2004), are opening up new avenues from which to examine our understanding of leadership in this particular form of work organization.
This special issue will offer a platform for bringing together the most recent theoretical and empirical research investigating the notion of leadership in projects. We welcome submissions from a wide range of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds, including project management and management science, human resource management, organizational behaviour, psychology and sociology. Papers undertaking comparative studies of leadership in different types of projects are also particularly encouraged.
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7. The role of the project manager as leader, including in-depth analyses of how leadership in enacted with key project constituents (eg stakeholders, technical specialists, suppliers, procurement, line managers).
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Andres, H.P. (2002), 'A comparison of face to face and virtual software development teams', Team Performance Management, Vol. 8, pp. 39-48.
Clarke, N (2010a), 'Emotional intelligence and its relationship to transformational leadership and key project manager competences', Project Management Journal, Vol 28, No.3, pp. 1-10.
Clarke, N. (2010b), 'Projects are emotional: How project managers' emotional awareness can influence decisions and behaviours in projects', International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol 3, No. 4, pp. 604-624.
Cobb, A.T. (2006). Leading Project Teams. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage
Cooke-Davies, T. (2002), 'The real success factors on projects', International Journal of Project Management, Vol 20 No. 3, pp. 185-190.
Gattiker, T.F., & Carter, C.R. (2010), 'Understanding project champions's ability to gain intra-organizational commitment for environmental projects', Journal of Operations Management, Vol 28 No.1, pp.72-85.
Hacker, M. (2000), 'The impact of top performers on project teams', Team Performance Management, Vol 6, No. 5/6, pp. 85-90.
Heinz, V., Baga, T., Gebert, D & Kearney, E. (2006), 'Leadership and cooperation as success factors in innovative R&D projects on electronic platforms', Team Performance Management, Vol 12 No. 3/ 4, pp.66-76.
Hodgson, D. & Cicmil, S. (2008), 'The other side of projects: The case for critical project studies', International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol 1 No.1, pp.142-152.
Keegan, A.E., & Hartog, D,N. (2004), 'Transformational leadership in a project-based environment: A comparative study of the leadership styles of project managers and line managers', International Journal of Project Management, Vol 22 No. 8, pp.609-618.
Keller, R.T. (2006), 'Transformational leadership, initiating structure and substitutes for leadership: A longitudinal study of research and development project team performance', Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 91 No.1, pp.202-210.
Lindebaum, D. & Fielden, S. (2010), ''Its good to be angry': Enacting anger in construction project management to achieve perceived leader effectiveness', Human Relations, DOI: 10.1177/0018726710381149.
Maurer, I. (2010), 'How to build trust in inter-organizational projects: the impact of project staffing and project rewards on the formation of trust, knowledge, acquisition and product innovation', International Journal of Project Management, Vol 28 No.7, pp.629-637.
Muller, R., & Turner, J.R. (2007), 'Matching the project manager's leadership style to project type', International Journal of Project Management, Vol 25, pp.21-32.
Nauman, S., Khan, A.M., & Ehsan, N. (2010), 'Patterns of empowerment and leadership style in project environment', International Journal of Project Management, Vol 28, pp. 638-649.
Oertig, M. & Buergi, T. (2006), 'The challenges of managing cross cultural virtual project teams', Team Performance Management, Vol 12 No. 1/ 2, pp.23-30.
Peslak, A.R. (2005), 'Emotions and team projects and processes', Team Performance Management, Vol 11 No.7/8, pp. 251-262.
Skipper, & Bell, (2006), 'Assessment with 360° Evaluations of Leadership Behavior in Construction Project Managers', Journal of Management in Engineering, Vol 22 No.2, pp.75-80.
Strang, K.S. (2005). 'Examining effective and ineffective transformational project leadership', Team Performance Management, Vol 11 No. 3/ 4, pp.68-103.
Tansley, C., & Huang, J. (2004), 'Social capital and knowledge integration in an ERP project teams: The importance of bridging and bonding', British Journal of Management, Vol 15, Supplement, 1 S43-S57.
Thambain, H.J. (2004), 'Team leadership effectiveness in technology-based project environments', Project Management Journal, Vol 35 No.4, pp. 35-46.
Weinkauf, K. & Hoegl, M. (2002), 'Team leadership activities in different project phases', Team Performance Management, Vol 8 No. 7/8, pp. 171-182
Yang, L-R., Huang, C-F., & Wu, H-S. (2010), 'The association among project manager's leadership style, teamwork and project success', International Journal of Project Management. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2010.03.006


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