- Always give credit to you soldiers. You boss always does not need your credit
- Be tough, be objective, be positive.
- Have a bottom-line
- Feel free to come up issues and risks, but always give solutions
- Always offer further steps. If you query something, also to tell what's you next step so that someone could be more serious
- Sometimes you need to say NO to people to make them happy in the end - they might not like it, but they'll end up satisfied when the project goes well.