No longer do project managers have to exercise negative power indiscriminately and in a way that is counterproductive towards their projects and themselves . Margaret Wheatley says that the quality of the relationship is what makes the difference. If the "stick" is used, negative energy is evoked; if the " carrot " is used, then positive energy. [48]
Project leadership, of course, is not something that simply pops up on projects. It requires a paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is in line with what the contemporary scholars and practitioners have come to believe constitutes the patterns of leadership.
[48] Margaret J. Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science , Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, 1994, p. 39.