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Lynda Bourne: How to Build Ethics into Your Team Culture
Ethical behavior is just as crucial as effective leadership in persuading stakeholders to cooperate and support the work of the project manager — and therefore contributes to successful project outcomes.
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Ethics and Technology (Photo credit: Center for the Study of Ethics at UVU)
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How to Build Ethics into Your Team Culture(blogs.pmi.org)
Ethical Standards- Mentoring(csuitementor.wordpress.com)
The Capacity for Ethical Conduct(routledgementalhealth.com)
Chp. 3 Ethical Influences(kkristoff.wordpress.com)
Ethics and Technology (Photo credit: Center for the Study of Ethics at UVU)
Lessons from the Olympics on Stakeholder Management
Map of the bidding cities to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially “The Games of the XXX Olympiad” (I don’t want the IOC branding police after me), have finally concluded, but the buzz about NBC’s coverage in the US still goes on. It all started during the opening ceremonies when the Twitterverse went crazy over the fact that the Games were not being broadcast live here in the US, but rather were delayed at least five hours.
Now, I think there is plenty of room for dissatisfaction with NBC’s coverage. The inane blabber from the announcers comes immediately to mind. And if you wanted to see something other than gymnastics, swimming, track, or volleyball, you were pretty much out of luck. (There were actually 302 events in 26 different sporting categories). And NBC really could have done a better job of making the live streaming coverage available over the Internet. For example, an iTunes-like approach to purchasing individual events or packages would have been much more modern than requiring a particular broadband account. But if you’re at all like me, you have to work during the day. Having the Games delayed until I could actually watch them did not bother me.
Related articles
- Olympics: IOC says it’s NBC’s call on tape-delayed coverage (pjstar.com)
- Editorial: NBC’s Olympics and the steely grip of old media (engadget.com)
- NBC’s Olympics Coverage, What Went Wrong (mashable.com)
- Did NBC fail in its Olympics coverage? (timesunion.com)
- NBC Couldn’t Spare 9.63 Seconds to Air 100m Final Live (1045theteam.com)
- 4 Lessons From the London Olympics (forbes.com)
- NBC ordered to halt boxing coverage (guardian.co.uk)
- 5 Essential 2012 Summer Olympics Android Apps (mycricket.com)
- The London Olympic Legacy: Science and Social Media (wired.com)
Certification
Henry Habap CKC Spaniel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It is always interesting to see how people feel about being certified as a Project Manager. On one hand I like having a standard set of criteria to normalize a base foundation of understanding PM principles. On the other hand I strongly believe that it is really the empirical background and work style of a person who makes them a successful Project Manager.
Related articles
- Project Manager Certification Easier Than Ever – MyStudyPartner.com is a new website to make test preparation easy and fun. (prweb.com)
- It’s Not About Project Buffers (managementblog.org)
- Competency Model For Project Managers (herdingcats.typepad.com)
- Hiring Manager Critique: Project Manager – Software Developer’s Resume (news.dice.com)
Project Evaluation: Making Investments Succeed
Accountability. Yes, we’d all like to know who’s accountable.
But that’s a funny word, isn’t it?
After all, isn’t responsibility the same thing?
Or as some smart ass wisely put it, ‘accountability is what’s left when you subtract responsibility’.
(That smart ass is Pasi Sahlberg, director of the Finnish Ministry of Education’s Center for International Mobility and author of the book Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?) (more…)
Inglorious PMP Meet Mumbai: Sep 4, 2011
I attended a PMI chapter meet for the first time , here in Mumbai, on the 4th of September, 2011 at Welingkar’s Management School, Matunga.
The experience to put it mildly—grated. The speaker was a certain Pradeep Phendse.
I decided to avoid any more meets.
Quoting my correspondence below:
“I’d like to add that the PMP meet was a disturbing experience for me.
My experience was marred by some ‘unknown’ individuals making threatening sounds behind my back before the meet began.
Have you or anyone else had a similar experience?”
I found the attendees willing to tolerate any loutish, juvenile and intimidating behavior so long as they were not the ones targeted.
Find below the full transcripts of my e-mail conversation with Messr. Sagar.
PS: ‘Thank you’ to ‘Nutul’ (read Blithering idiot) for ‘Gib, Up’. I can take a hint and stay away where I’m not welcome.
Dear Sir/Madam,
As you are non-member of PMI Mumbai Chapter, you were suppose to pay Fee Rs.500/-. But some how you missed to make the payment, so request you to make the payment as earliest as possible.
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Regards,
Sagar Patil
PMI MUMBAI CHAPTER
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Linus Fernandes to Sagar
show details 28 Sep
thanks, sagar, for this email. or maybe not. the specified meet was
supposed to be free for both members and outsiders. are you telling me
otherwise?
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Linus Fernandes
http://linusfernandes.com
Live life as an exclamation, not an explanation!
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Sagar,
I’d like to add that the PMP meet was a disturbing experience for me.
My experience was marred by some ‘unknown’ individuals making threatening sounds behind my back before the meet began.
Have you or anyone else had a similar experience?
Would you return?
Linus Fernandes
http://linusfernandes.com
Live life as an exclamation, not an explanation!
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Do you need any more clarifications?
Linus Fernandes
http://linusfernandes.com
Live life as an exclamation, not an explanation!
Everonnn Systems: Prometric approved centre?
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I recently had to give the Project Management Institute exam at Prometric centre in Mumbai, Everonn Systems at Andheri East. The exam centre is located just past the Saki Naka junction. The exam went off well, but I encountered a couple of hassles that I sought to get clarified by the Everonn management. Though I have mailed the following communication to the e-mail address listed on their website, I have yet to receive a response. Reproduced below is the excerpt of the communication:
Dear Sir/Madam:
On the 4th of February, 2011, I gave the PMI certification exam for CAPM at your Andheri location.
Though the facilities provided were first-rate, I have a couple of points that I would like to bring to your notice.
First, the young lady making the announcements exhibited a hostile attitude. An attitude that is and was unwarranted.
Secondly, during the exam, a gentleman on the other side of the room, kept on going “Mada, Mada” throughout the exam.
This was a huge irritant and made the exam-taking a veritable nightmare.
I hope you will look into the matter with all due haste and consideration.
Sincerely,
Linus Fernandes
http://linusfernandes.com
PMAC Blues
I,not quite recently, attended a Project Management course conducted by PMac, a training institute based in NOIDA.
The course was conducted locally at Andheri(East) in Mumbai.
Though the faculty in charge was competent, there continued throughout the 4-day session a continuous disruption of the class.
Also, in addition, I discovered that my co-students were more intent on taking pot-shots at each other further vitiating the atmosphere.
Is this the ‘New Normal’?
Quote of the day:
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow
