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Environment Skills

Our studies indicate that the trend that is the defining characteristic of human evolution—the growth of brain size and complexity—is likely still going on. Meanwhile, our environment and the skills we need to survive in it are changing faster than we ever imagined. I would expect the human brain, which has done well by us so far, will continue to adapt to those changes.

—BRUCE LAHN

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In this chapter, we address the environment in which complete project managers operate. We refer here not to the physical environment but to the relationships between people that define what happens in an organization. These are the manmade artifacts ...

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