Loeke Richter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Just starting to use FEBI in my professional life, I like to share the wonderful experience I had with a 3-woman pilot group. One of the goals of my assignment is to make them- forced to work together due to reorganization- a team, inside/outside. Their manager‘s biggest worry is that that don’t show a strong coming out as a team. I only have 4 sessions with ... Read More
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - 12:00 am EDT
first experience with a team
Posted by Loeke Richter in FEBI Learning Lounge | Comments (0)
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 - 2:14 am EDT
Suze Orman, Financial Guru
Name: Susan "Suze" Orman
Occupation: Author, fundraiser, financial advisor, and host of CNBC's The Suze Orman Show.
Career Highlights: Went from living in a van for three months to waitressing at Berkeley, CA's Buttercup Bakery to training as an account executive at Merrill Lynch, who she later sued when her stockbroker turned out to be a crook. Worked at Merrill Lynch until 1983, then moved over to Prudential, then started her own ... Read More
Posted by Dave Kiefaber in Profiles In Competence | Comments (1)
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 - 12:00 am EDT
Vince McMahon, Chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment
Name: Vincent Kennedy McMahon
Occupation: Chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Career Highlights: Ushered in the modern era of professional wrestling with a nationally televised promotion, as well as licensing/merchandising deals for his talent. Turned a once-risky Wrestlemania venture into a ... Read More
Posted by Dave Kiefaber in Profiles In Competence | Comments (0)
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 - 12:00 am EDT
Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft
Name: Bill Gates
Occupation: Former chief executive officer of Microsoft (currently a part-time non-executive chairman), current co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Career Highlights: Turned a gift for writing programming code into an operating system that revolutionized computing and had a great deal to do with the rise of personal computers in the United States. Built Microsoft into a global ... Read More
Posted by Dave Kiefaber in Profiles In Competence | Comments (0)
Friday, October 9th, 2009 - 2:56 pm EDT
Where Focus Goes...
I chanced by a television program my husband was watching just as Weldon Long was describing his comeback from prison, poverty and addiction in the Upside of Fear. What a story! His deceptively simple, authentically lived, acronymically-clever formula – F.E.A.R. – reminded me of truths we’ve known and taught in leadership programs for years, starting with F: Focus on what you want, not on the fear of what you don’t want. Sometimes called the “Law of Attraction,” his ... Read More
Posted by Ginny Whitelaw in Leading Below The Neck: Tales Of Whole Leadership | Comments (0)
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - 12:40 pm EDT
Behind the Financial Meltdown - and equipping leaders to avoid the next one
Just reconnected this week with a former client - a seasoned CFO who had been around the financial world as AIG was falling apart and Wall St. was in meltdown. I was curious to get his impressions of the role in leadership in all that mess – was it a failure in leadership? And, if so, what could we be doing ... Read More
Posted by Ginny Whitelaw in FEBI Learning Lounge | Leading Below The Neck: Tales Of Whole Leadership | Comments (0)