A recent article titled, Four Leadership Lessons From Tech’s Titans, would provide excellent points for a meaningful discussion with your direct reports and with your leadership team. Jeff Lefevere of Fusion Alliance pinpoints four areas that “tech titans” like Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg all emphasize in their leadership philosophies. Lefevere explains …
When asked to reflect on his forty-three year tenure at Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Maynard Oliverius summed it up in one sentence: “on balance, I’ve had a great career.” Oliverius has served as the President and CEO for the past sixteen of his forty-three years with the organization in Topeka, Kansas, and is set to retire this …
Seth Godin, one of the world’s most successful bloggers and a long-standing best selling author, recently wrote a short blog titled Emergency Room Doctors, that I feel is particularly relevant for healthcare leaders across America and around the world. In this short post about organizational focus and strategy, Godin made a great analogy that healthcare leaders …
I was privileged to recently interview Maynard Oliverius, who has been President and CEO of Stormont-Vail Healthcare in Topeka, Kansas for 16 years. Oliverius, who has been with Stormont-Vail for 43 years, is set to retire in June. Before being promoted to CEO, Oliverius served successfully as COO of Stormont-Vail for many years. At …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. Burnison writes, “The first challenge for any leader is to take charge.” I am assuming you have done that. Burnison then makes a crucial …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. Burnison discusses the critical leadership mentality and skill of focusing on and orienting your organization toward opportunity, not crisis. This advice is particularly timely and …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. Burnison addresses a particularly timely and relevant leadership quality and skill for current healthcare leaders: “When I was first promoted to CEO, on several …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. In the first chapter, Burnison writes “To be a leader is not to compete with anyone else, whether it’s your predecessor, a peer, or a role …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. In the first chapter, Burnison makes a strong case that “leaders are mirrors for the entire organization.” This statement, “leaders are mirrors for the entire organization,” would …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled,The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. Burnison writes, “By the time you reach the level of senior leader, you have already mastered the technical skills that you need. What you may …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. I love the way Burnison describes our paths of leadership: “A journey that is about enabling others by discovering yourself, as you commit yourself to being …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. This book is an excellent resource for individuals, teams, and organizations that truly desire personal, team, and organizational leadership improvement. For example, very early …
We are in a study and discussion of Gary Burnison’s recently published book titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm. Regardless of your level within your organization, the book’s introduction provides excellent content for discussion with and among your leadership team: “As the leader, …
Gary Burnison, CEO of Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm, has written a new book well worth reading. The recently published new book is titled, The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership. Burnison is particularly well qualified to write a guide to effective leadership. He experiences every day what it is like to be responsible …
“When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in love.” A.K. Raha wrote these words of great wisdom. The same great wisdom is also true for what we normally describe as “work.” Imagine the incredible positive change that …
Big thinkers, backed by integrity and big personal commitments, many times accomplish big, worthy results. Take the case of Larry Potterfield, founder of a small company called MidwayUSA, located in Columbia, Missouri. In 2009, MidwayUSA became the 18th small business to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Now, Potterfield’s business continues to enjoy …
It has been my honor and privilege to visit each and every United States Presidential Library and Museum in America. The Presidential Libraries/Museums are managed by the National Archives and Record Administration, and are owned by the American people. Each library and museum features the history, legacy and times of one former United States …
After nearly 40 years in healthcare leadership, I continue to believe that most healthcare leaders do not spend nearly enough time and energy learning from outside the healthcare field. If you ask most healthcare leaders to be honest about what they read, the conferences they attend, and the personal and professional development sessions in which …
Tony Schwartz, President and CEO of The Energy Project and author of Be Excellent at Anything, addressed a critical leadership principle in a recent Harvard Business Review blog titled Why Appreciation Matters So Much. No leader who desires leadership excellence can ignore this critical success factor: “Whatever else each of us derives from our work, there may …
A recent article in Healthcare Executive Magazine titled, The 85 Percent Solution, is worthy of revisiting and re-emphasizing. The author assumes you are responsible for at least 85 percent of your success. Even if up to 15 percent of your success depends on luck, you can achieve the results you desire. The author writes, “Accountability is …