Proven Strategy for Success
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending an event for Leadership Austin hosted at The University of Texas Club. Since 1979, Leadership Austin has been instrumental in helping Central Texans, from diverse backgrounds, discover and foster community leadership. Programs include topic focused monthly breakfast meetings, immersion experiences for people new to Austin, and extended cohorts focused on emerging leaders and [...]
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Have you ever wondered what were the attributes of the best leaders? Statisticians at Google, Inc did as well. Enter “Project Oxygen”. So, the masters of data poured over multiple sources of information providing insight into the success factors within their organization and conducted hundreds of interviews. The results are eight rules and three pitfalls [...]
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Guest Post by Joe Gordon, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Chief – Operations, Support Division, Colonel USMC (Retired) We are forever assessing and obsessing what it takes to be an effective leader and to ensure a successful organization. There is a plethora of material enshrined in professional journals, books, PowerPoint® slide [...]
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Guest post by Christine M. Ivie, Ed.D Associate, positive eye consulting™ It’s the end of the summer, the Boise State Broncos are ranked number 3 and about to start another great season of football (I just have to add a BSU plug!), and our kids are headed back into the classroom. With budget cuts and [...]
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In an interview for the Gallup Management Journal, Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup, predicts the end of the Deming, Six Sigma, process improvement era. He describes process improvement as one of the big evolutions of leadership, but that it has reached its plateau as organizations have maximized efficiencies and have run out of [...]
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