Corporate Organizations Today's trend toward greater project-based complexity makes organizational culture and design the central theme behind the success and ultimate failure of any project. With the emergence of global markets, projects now take on a wide distribution of project teams spread across multiple organizations in a particular supply chain. If a particular organization is not prepared to deal with these new complexities, project selection is then limited to smaller, more menial tasks. Most organizations fall into two specific forms: organic and mechanistic (Olson & Branch, 2002). Organic companies have a culture in place that deals more with rapidly evolving markets and technologies. Mechanistic firms are most effective in stable markets that usually do not require rapid turnover of new projects (Olson & Branch, 2002). Depending on how organizational design and the employees who drive these decisions are defined, culture is often the overlooked intangible that will determine success. Technology enables employees to better manage complex projects, but without the right people and the right organizational culture, the propensity for delays will result in higher costs and poor quality. Effective project management is a function of teamwork, leadership, communication and the cultural environment. Marvin Weisbord, author of Organizing for the Future, states that project-based organizations must include the following four elements necessary for success: · Interdependence (working on important problems in which each participant has a stake) · Leadership · Animation... ... middle of paper ......d strategies, he/she must first start uniting the team.REFERENCEGray, C & Larson, E. (2003). Project Management: the managerial process. McGraw-Hill Company. Melymuka, Kathleen (2004). How to Choose a Project Team Retrieved June 6, 2005, from www.computerworld.com Olson, J & Branch, K. (2002). Project- and program-based teams and organizations, Department of Education. Retrieved June 6, 2005, from www.science.doe.gov/sc-5/benchmark.Pacelli, L. (2005). 5 simple strategies to unify your project teams. Cubized Debt. (20) (1) p. 20(2). Retrieved June 6, 2005, from EbscoHost on the World Wide Web: at www.appollolibrary.com Weisbord, Marvin R. (1987) Productive Workplaces: Organizing and Management for Dignity, Meaning, and Community. San Francisco: Jossey-BassPublishers.