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Execution – The Art of Getting Things Done, Bossidy and Charan

February 17, 2011 by

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According to Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan – Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals to achieve the promised results. I was looking at an article I wrote a few summers ago about “Execution, the Discipline of Getting Things Done”. I was trying to convey two tangible sets of […]

Fresh Air Fund

February 5, 2011 by

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Sara Wilson  from the Fresh Air Fund reached out to me via email to see if I would share a little bit on the CoachDaveK blog.  I checked it out.  It’s a great concept. So am adding it to our TAPUniversity blog as well.  The Fresh Air Fund provides support to  New York City kids […]

Discrimination and the PMI Code of Ethics

March 19, 2010 by

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Discrimination is behavior towards a member of a certain group based on their membership of that group rather than their individual qualities. Hiring only people of a certain race, giving certain assignments more often to either men or women, and recruiting just younger individuals are all examples of discrimination. The fourth mandatory Fairness standard in […]

Property Rights and the PMI Code of Ethics

March 17, 2010 by

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Respecting both tangible things and intellectual property that do not belong to you is a matter of showing respect for the owner. The fourth mandatory Respect standard in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (http://www.pmi.org/About-Us/Ethics/~/media/PDF/Ethics/ap_pmicodeofethics.ashx) is “3.3.4 We respect the property rights of others.” Owners, which include both individuals and […]

The Second Aspirational Honesty Standard in the PMI Code of Ethics

February 22, 2010 by

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Happy birthday to George Washington! One of the most enduring folklore stories about the first President of the United States is that as a boy he chopped down his father’s cherry tree, and when his father discovered the ruined tree, George said that he could not tell a lie and so confessed his misdeed. “5.2.2 […]