1.4. Effective teamwork Effective teamwork has eight characteristics that are under the control of the project manager and that could contribute to project success: • Create a clear goal that instills a sense of mission. • Provide a results-oriented structure • Assemble a competent team with a good balance between personal and technical expertise. • Instill a strong sense of unified commitment. • Foster a climate that promotes collaboration. • Establish standards of excellence through individual pressure and team with the understanding that failure will have consequences.• Provide recognition for good work• Institute principled leadership. Teamwork can be seen as a continuum that is disintegrated and uncoordinated on one end and too well coordinated to the point of complete consensus (groupthink). Finding a good balance is ideal and will produce the best results.2. Structures2.1. The pure project organization Moving away from functional silo structures towards pure project structure works well in some sectors such as construction. It implies a fixed ...