Necessary Qualities Of Project Manager

amazonka says : I’ll not be mistaken if I say that first of all Project Manager should have all characteristics peculiar to a Leader. I’d like to consider such peculiarities, according to the PMBOK, as impermanence and unique character of the projects.

• In view of temporal character of a project, Project Manager should be very mobile. In addition, he shouldn’t cling to his place at a project and be ready to be “out of work” at least until the start of a new project. On the other hand, Project Manager should be passionate about his project activities and reaching project goals.
• The unique character of a project requires from the person to be a master of many disciplines, in contrast to managers of functional organizations who can be a specialist of the one and only sphere of knowledge.

What do you think about these qualities? By the way, do you think that pm software is popular? I heard that a lot of people still use MS Exel. As to me I use ConceptDraw products www.conceptdraw.com - I can easily share documants between mind mapping, brainstorming soft and project planning soft