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Project Teams: A Structured Development Approach is a seven-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2016 and written by Vittal S. Anantatmula, professor at the College of Business at Western Carolina University. The author provides a model of successful teams, examining a key aspect of the model in each chapter. He explores how the development, process, and management of teams works. He compares traditional teams with virtual global teams. He considers the attributes of productive team members and suggests traits of high-performance teams. Each chapter begins with objectives and a preview of concepts covered. Each chapter contains discussion questions. In Chapter 4, Managing Project Teams (31 pages), the author reviews concepts in team leadership. He considers the power culture and team decision-making. He describes the task, socioemotional, and destructive roles of team members and how each affects delegation. He reviews influences on decision-making and proposes a six-step process from gathering information to monitoring results. He examines team conflict and ways to resolve it. He also reviews negotiations. He discusses the drivers of team motivation and links team behavior to stages of team development. He reviews the relationship between project success and the team manager's skill sets and attitudes. The chapter ends by comparing leadership and management.

• Project management
• Global teams
• Leadership
• Corporate strategy
• Leading teams
• Managing conflicts