David M. Katz

Dave Katz is a refugee from the corporate world, and reincarnated as the most obnoxious math tutor that school districts have ever seen. His students and their parents love him! Dave has been put here on God's green Earth to help all of his students get A+'s in all of their classes. He currently serves two grammar schools, three middle schools and four high schools with back-of-classroom math tutoring, up to pre-calculus, before going from home to home from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am. Prior to his career in education, Dave honed his project management skills serving numerous government agencies and corporations executive administrative and office manager roles for a blizzard of district and regional managers and sales and marketing teams. As a Microsoft Office Suite wizard, Dave created the PowerPoint slide shows that won million dollar contracts. August 7th, 2007, is his debut on our blog on the topic of: "Project Management Made Really, Really, Really Easy -- Notes From The 2nd Grade Play-ground To Accelerate Your Project's Completion"

Welcome to the Land of Canaan For Project Managers

Welcome to the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Milk and Honey*, for highly intelligent, very creative, totally imaginative, always sincere, and, on occasion we hope for you, individually divine project mangers.  Thanks be to the God of your beliefs for your safe deliverance and arrival here.  As you known, or as [...]

“We are NOT under siege”

“Hey, Jerry, YES you are…”
Dateline Carlsbad, CA: From the Thursday, May 29, 2008, edition of The Daily Journal serving San Mateo and greater environs, in the Business Briefs column, the following headline appeared: “Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang says his company is not “UNDER SIEGE“.
Hey, Jerry, which rock are you hiding under?

Capturing The White House Is An Impossibility In This Political Chess Game

What project managers can learn from being broad-sided on their blind sides
Project managers are highly intelligent, very creative, totally imaginative, 100 % sincere, and for those of you who have read Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss, you also know that you are “individually divine.” I did not say religious, I said “individually divine.” I know, [...]

“WE WILL NOT BE BLUDGEONED”

“WE WILL NOT BE BLUDGEONED INTO A TRANSACTION THAT IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR STOCKHOLDERS”, Roy Bostock, Yahoo! chairman.
Yahoo! Inc. on Saturday ( July 12, 2008 ) rejected an offer to sell its Internet search business to Microsoft Corp. and leave the remainder of the company in control of billionaire investor Carl [...]

Project Management is a Myth

Project Management is a Myth

Project management is a myth: .period: end of story: can’t be done: so don’t even bother trying: .unless of course, you do it right from the very first meeting on the very first day. And on that first day, you had better do it right by PROJECT COLLABORATION and not by management. If you [...]

New Perspectives in Project Management From A High School Library: Getting An A+ In Every Subject, Blog # 5

New Perspectives in Project Management From A High School Library:  Getting An A+ In Every Subject, Blog # 5

Welcome back to blog # 5 in the series. Today, for project management, we are going to look at a very specific case of an on-campus project and how I managed it into an A+. Of course, I had a vision, a mission and purpose, goals, plans and pilot programs and I had [...]

New Perspectives in Project Management From The Second Grade Playground: # 4 = What SHAPE Is Your Leadership In?

New Perspectives in Project Management From The Second Grade Playground: # 4 = What SHAPE Is Your Leadership In?

Welcome back everyone to blog # 4: your opportunity to look in the mirror to see what you see about having you lead, or work on, any project: and you had better see a leader or else you are going to see a follower and if you are follower, then you may be the one [...]

New Perspectives From The Second Grade Playground: Romeo and Juliet as Improve Theater, Blog # 3

New Perspectives From The Second Grade Playground:  Romeo and Juliet as Improve Theater, Blog # 3

 Welcome back, everyone for blog # 3: the fresh and refreshing perspective series.  If you have expectations and assumptions about finding something serious here, such a re-engineering and all that other good consultant stuff, this is NOT the place for you.  If you want to find out how we DID IT and won ALL of [...]

New Perspectives For Project Management From The Second Grade: Natalie Goes To College, Blog # 2

New Perspectives For Project Management From The Second Grade: Natalie Goes To College, Blog # 2

 
Welcome back, everyone.  I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s overview. Were you in a snit and snot, dance and prance, rant and rave, hoot and holler or scream and yell of your own yesterday?  If not, maybe today is your lucky day: these things are experien-tial, you know.  And, did you go out and buy Stephen [...]

New Perspectives From The Second Grade Playground, # 1

New Perspectives From The Second Grade Playground, # 1

                                                              
Project Management:
New Perspectives From The Second Grade Playground To Make Your Job Easier.

 
Project management has got to be the easiest task on God’s green Earth.  Yes? No? Maybe so.  Have you not discovered this to be the truth as we all know it?
 
Hello everyone, I’m Dave Katz: the most obnoxious math tutor that my school [...]