Emotional intelligence and its relationship to transformational leadership and key project manager competences

Project Management Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 5-20

  Clarke, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional intelligence; Leadership; Project competences

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650121330     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20162     Document Type: Article

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