Dr. Owen Gadeken

By Owen Gadeken Needing money for college, I was able to get an Air Force ROTC scholarship and used it to get my undergraduate degree in chemistry.

By Dr. Owen Gadeken The scene was all too familiar to me: a new leader with a new project. Gone were my days as a manager on Air Force missile development projects.

By Dr. Owen Gadeken Several years ago, I was leading a team-building workshop for an Army program office at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and I had divided the group into five-person teams to compete against each other in a desert survival simulation exercise.

By Owen Gadeken Teaming is so common in today’s project management environment that most of us assume it comes naturally.

By Dr. Owen Gadeken Background Project teams are often hampered by internal conflicts between team members from different functional organizations.