PLI · Project Leadership Insight
A weekly column for leaders
Each issue takes one piece of leadership and management research, from sources such as HBR, INSEAD and PNAS, and retells it in the language leaders use at work.
projectleadership.ccThe director who has led both management consulting and HR data platform development, and the organizations DAL works with.
Leads NFN, a Business Intelligence Platform (BIP) company that runs an online SaaS platform. Through management consulting, NFN helps organizations see where they need to go (Awareness), builds standards they can measure (Assess), draws insight through analysis (Analytics) and supports them in putting it into practice (Action).
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A weekly column for leaders
Each issue takes one piece of leadership and management research, from sources such as HBR, INSEAD and PNAS, and retells it in the language leaders use at work.
projectleadership.ccDaily wisdom from Lines Life Taught Me
The book's 99 laws of life, in nine parts, read one a day as short columns with real cases and sources, plus a one-line message for the day.
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The Strategic Importance of Team Effectiveness in the AI Era: An Integrated SER-M and Shared Mental Model Case Study of TossJournal of Mechanism Management (메커니즘 연구), 6(3)
JOURNALVertical and Horizontal Coordinates of AI Project Management: A Two-Axis Integration of CPMAI and the PMBOK Guide (8th Edition)ProjMAN – International Conference on Project MANagement
CONFERENCEReconciling Two Time Logics: An Agile–CPMAI Integration Framework for Managing AI ProjectsPark, J., Kang, B., Syeed, M. S. I., Nyarkoh, M., Kwak, Y. H., & Park, C.ProjMAN 2026 – International Conference on Project MANagement · to appear in Procedia Computer ScienceFrames the clash between Agile and AI work as a dual-timeline problem and proposes a framework in which CPMAI phases form the strategic backbone and Agile sprints the execution rhythm, linked by phase gates and a two-tier Definition of Done. The evaluation instrument was pre-tested with an LLM-simulated Delphi.Paper (PDF) ↗Data & replication (GitHub) ↗
CONFERENCEAsymmetric Competitive Advantage Strategy of Financial Underdog TOSS: Case Study Based on SER-M Management Strategy ModelJournal of Mechanism Management (메커니즘 연구), 6(2)
JOURNALA Study on Clarifying Project Manager's AI Competency and Systematizing: Focusing on the Development of Performance Indicators to Improve Project Outcome Prediction Accuracy14th IPMA Research Conference (Project Management Practice in Disruptive Era), Bogotá, Colombia
CONFERENCEIndividual Level Goal Clarity and Perceived Team Effectiveness: Perceived Shared Mental Model Mediation and Job Group DifferencesJournal of Creativity and Innovation, 19(3), 59–87 · doi:10.22834/PDS.2026.19.3.59
JOURNALDevelopment and Validation of the Shared Mental Model ScaleKorean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 39(2), 267–285 · doi:10.24230/kjiop.v39i2.267-285
JOURNALThe Application of Generative AI in Project Management: Focusing on Text-Mining Projects for Human ResourcesOum, S., Park, J., Kwak, Y. H., Kang, B., Choi, J., & Park, C.Procedia Computer Science, 278, 1993–2002 (Elsevier) · doi:10.1016/j.procs.2026.03.196Compares GPT-3.5 and BERT with human experts on 2,420 compliance and culture survey responses: GPT-3.5 without fine-tuning reached F1 0.73, BERT 0.72, and fine-tuned BERT 0.83.
JOURNALPAPERS IN PROGRESS · 5
Personalized AI Agents under Changing User Preferences and Permission BoundariesWorking paper · in preparation
WORKING PAPERPerceived Generative AI Complementarity and Team Effectiveness: The Mediating Role of Shared Mental ModelsWorking paper · in preparation
WORKING PAPERHow Work Practices Drive Organizational Efficiency: The Mediating Role of Change Agents and the Moderating Effect of AI-Enabled InfrastructureWorking paper · in preparation
WORKING PAPERBuilding Dynamic Capabilities for AI-Enabled Project Management: How PM Competency Drives AI Utilization and PerformanceWorking paper · in preparation
WORKING PAPERThe Mediating Role of Shared Mental Models in the Relationship Between Goal Clarity and Team Effectiveness: A Multi-Group Path Analysis by PositionWorking paper · in preparation
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