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This article demonstrates how project managers can achieve greater success if trained in people skills. Project management is an important skill for businesses to have – particularly companies whose business rests on delivering projects. Often project managers are trained in the technical aspects of project management such as setting objectives; critical path analysis; work breakdown structures; resource allocation and risk management. However, the success of a project often rests on the understanding of related people and management issues, rather than technical issues. ITNET, a UK‐based consulting and business process outsourcing company, reveals how adding soft skills training, such as influencing, motivation, and delegation, to technical project management training can positively impact a business.

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A Previous investigation by the writer (1) showed that cyanamide readily breaks down, yielding ammonia in normal clay and sandy soils. The evidence, however, threw no light upon the cause or nature of this change. This question was accordingly reserved for a later investigation. The concensus of the available evidence indicated that the production of ammonia from cyanamide in the soil is due to direct bacterial action. This view was held by Immendorff(2) and Kappen(3), who concluded that in poor soils of low bacterial activities cyanamide is not converted into ammonia but is chemically transformed into dicyanodiamide. Löhnis(4) at first accounted in a similar way for the formation of ammonia from cyanamide in the soil. He(5) assumed later, however, that cyanamide is normally decomposed by soil colloids into urea or possibly some other substances, and the latter are then converted into ammonia by the soil organisms. He adduced no direct evidence of the production of urea from cyanamide in the soil.