Project leadership for future making
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Author(s)
Whyte, Jennifer
Mosca, Luigi
Comi, Alice
Liu, Lucia Xiaoyan
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The question of how project leadership can achieve desirable futures through projects is timely and important, yet under-explored. We synthesize recent insights on future making and socialized project leadership to address it. Our contribution is to frame project leadership for future making as the set-up and maintenance of organizational contexts for participation in collective practices of inquiry to identify desirable futures and achieve project outcomes. We argue that throughout the project life cycle, participants engage with incomplete representations of possible futures, and ask questions that identify and include diverse people, materials, and places to make ethical judgments for better futures.
Date Issued
2025-04-01
Date Acceptance
2025-03-01
Citation
Project Management Journal, 2025, 56 (2), pp.173-181
ISSN
8756-9728
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Start Page
173
End Page
181
Journal / Book Title
Project Management Journal
Volume
56
Issue
2
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Published
Date Publish Online
2025-03-17