Do What You Said You Will Do

Mike Griffiths is an experienced project manager, author and consultant who works for PMI as a subject matter expert. Before joining PMI, Mike consulted and managed innovation and technology projects throughout Europe, North and South America for 30+ years. He was co-lead for the PMBOK Guide—Seventh Edition, lead for the Agile Practice Guide, and contributor to the PMI-ACP and PMP exam content outlines. Outside of PMI, Mike maintains the websites www.LeadingAnswers.com about leading teams and www.PMillustrated.com, which teaches project management for visual learners.

  Estimating   Ethics   Leadership  

Just because it is easy to add subliminal messages to PowerPoint presentations doesn’t mean we should. In theory, by making a white box that covers your message disappear to reveal it--and having the message under that box then also disappear on a linked timing of, say, 100^th of a second, we can easily populate our presentations with some affirmative messages and helpful suggestions!

I used to joke with my team that since I took my PMP exam before PMI introduced the Code of Ethics, I didn’t need to be ethical. While true about the timing, ethics are the foundation of long-term performance and job satisfaction. This article explains this link and draws some observations for making better decisions.

In the best selling book Leadership Challenge, authors James Kouzes and Barry Posner report the findings of a long-running study. In trying to find out what characteristics make the best leaders, they asked people to rank which of the following attributes people rate highest in leaders they admire and enjoy working for. The options they provided to choose from were:

From over 75,000 participants, across all cultural differences and demographics, the single highest-rated attribute of a good leader, year after year, is being “honest.” People will not willingly work with a leader that they know to be …

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