One of the best leadership books I have ever read is: The Manager’s Book of Decencies: How Small Gestures Build Great Companies, by Steve Harrison (McGraw-Hill), for all project managers, team leaders, and executives. Steve Harrison is Chairman of Lee, Hecht, Harrison, the premier career management and leadership consulting firm. He is also the former [...]

The other day I was meeting with the senior manager and he told me that one of his biggest problems is poor Ethics in his employees. He said he felt that Ethics was impossible to screen for in applicants, because A) every candidate will say he or she is very ethical, and B) people solicit [...]

Per PMI’s Announcement there are significant changes coming to the PMP exam effective Aug. 31st, especially that there will no longer be a separate section on Ethics.  Instead, Ethics  & Social Responsibility questions will be interspersed throughout the 5 Process Group sections (making the test harder!)  HOW MY BOOK CAN HELP YOU WITH THIS CHANGE:  My book,  “The Project Management Answer Book” offers  an extensive chapter on Ethics (much [...]

One of the training activities I developed for my PMP class was selected to be part of a new book filled with hands-on activities trainers can model from and use in the classroom: “The Book of Road-Tested Activities.” This very creative and valuable book was compiled and edited by renowned training expert Elaine Biech, and published jointly by Pfeiffer (an imprint [...]

To avoid confusion, there is 1 FALSE RUMOR and 1 TRUE FACT about the change to the PMP exam coming up August 31, 2011. 1) FALSE Rumor – Some people have been saying that the PMBOK may be changing in August.  This is NOT TRUE.  Per PMI, there are NO ANNOUNCED CHANGES to the PMI PMBOK Guide planned [...]