One of the top project failures cause by poor leadership is Culumbia disaster, columbia was one of the space shuttle owned by NASA. Amy Donahue (2004) sated that on January 16, the columbia with her crew of seven was lunched to begin a scientific research mission. Sixteen days later, columbia and her crew were lost during re entered the earth's atmosphere with unknown damage to her left wing.

Just after the tragedy occurred many experts concluded that technology was to blame. But a more thorough and comprehensive investigation, undertaken by the columbia Accident Investigation Board, CAIB, concluded that management was as much to blame for the failure. The Board described an organizational culture in which at every junctures, program managers were resistant to new information and there was no shared accountability for any outcome. It was a culture in which team members were unwilling to communicate effectively and had no social skills.

The leader didn't take the advice from his engineer and still proceeded with his decision as opposed to the team's joint decision. Senior management also ignored the fight data from the previous mission. This is a typical example of poor project leadership.

Question 1, Lack of team cohesiveness was highly observed from the case study. Discuss five strategies you would use to develop team cohesiveness to this increase team performance.

Question 2, it was found in the case study that there was a culture in which team members were unwilling to communicate effectively and had no social skills. However it is argued that a successful project manager cannot function as a true leader if he cannot communicate with the team or gain their trust.

Defend the argument.