Ethical Conduct

Make genuine recommendations that one believes will meet the needs of the client, instead of simply agreeing with a client’s self-assessment of itself;

Decline a job if one does not have the expertise the respective client is requesting;

Refrain from being selective or skewing data to make one’s recommendation look better;

Don’t promise results that one can’t achieve within the prescribed timeframe;

Even in the face of resistance, use and promote the internationally accepted standards and guiding principles;

Listen objectively to a counterpart’s concerns, constraints, issues, restrictions, and so forth;

Never knowingly beguile, mislead, misrepresent, misappropriate, or fabricate lies to the client;

Refrain from making recommendations pertaining to a given solution that one is not able to implement for oneself;

Take full responsibility for the result of one’s work, irrespective of the result, never blame another;

Never advertise the attainment of results that cannot be clearly and concisely linked to one’s work; and

Partners shall continuously conduct research, namely, read journals, irrespective of the field of interest, concerning management; performance improvement, and educational research; attend conferences and professional meetings; train, and consult with credible colleagues in the field.