Welcome to 2007 and to our new website at www.leadershipdevelopment.com. We have been involved in a long process of updating our site and editorial approach. Our ongoing and ever-expanding goal is to bring you a unique, contemporary take on ethical, effective leadership. Here are the key changes we will be introducing in 2007, some of which start with this issue of Leader Guide Magazine:
1) First, we have redesigned the website look. Our goal was to have a design format that captures the diversified, dynamic nature of contemporary business today. We hope you find the new site easier to navigate and read. We are continuing the progress on design throughout the year.
2) This year, we will be building monthly content and e-zine issues around themes, starting the New Year, appropriately, with “Goals.” This is designed to bring a practical, focused framework to help you with your leadership development efforts.
3) We will be adding new features each month, starting with this issue. This month’s new feature is “Leader of the Month”. This will be a brief addition to this monthly emailed Leader Letter. The “Leader of the Month” will be based on a very subjective opinion (ours) as to a person currently demonstrating excellence in ethical, effective leadership. The person selected will also exemplify a leadership facet of that month’s theme (again, “Goals” in this particular month.)
4) Our LeaderShop of quality items of interest to leaders has been revamped, and will continue to undergo enhancement as the New Year goes on. We will have featured items that go along with our monthly theme, and will highlight those both on our front page of the current Leader Guide Magazine and in our Leader Letter.
5) “Leadership Etc.” also begins in this Leader Letter. It will be a catchall segment of seminars, quotes, people, places and things related to developing leadership. It will also briefly note significant events of leaders past and present.
While “new” is always a great part of a New Year’s fresh start, we remain committed to the same core values that were the foundation of our beginning going on eight years ago. Those core values are to bring Practical, Proven Ways to Do the Right Things, Right.
We will continue to send out our monthly Leader Letter and produce our online magazine Leader Guide Magazine. In our newest issue, we start out the year with the logical theme of Goals. You will find articles about lessons from the best leaders of 2006, and a unique way to achieve this year’s resolutions inspired by Alice and Wonderland. CLICK HERE FOR THE JANUARY 2007 LEADER GUIDE MAGAZINE.
We will continue to welcome ideas and suggestions from our readers about how to help through our website to develop ethical, effective leaders. As always we welcome your feedback and suggestions.
LEADER OF THE MONTH, JANUARY 2007
James McNerty, CEO Boeing
After two CEO’s left in scandal after as many years, McNerty “helped clean up a management culture tarnished with ethical improprieties,” stated Business Week in their Top Leaders of 2006 issue.
McNerty has been said to take a quieter, “numbers” approach to leading a company to achieve its goals.
“I’m unafraid to expect a fair amount from people,” he said. “It makes them so much better. The things you expect from people have to be so fundamental that they’re independent of people’s style, culture and function. So when we talk about the ability to chart the course for yourself and the people you work with, to expect a lot and inspire people to have the right values, to find a way and deliver results, these are pretty fundamental issues.”
As for himself, he is inspired “by pieces of people” like his former mentor Jack Welch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs (for his “ability to commercialize innovation.”)
McNerty has a summary of leadership qualities needed to attain goals ethically: “Expect a lot, inspire people, ask them to take the values that are important to them at home or at church and bring them to work.”
LEADERSHIP ETC…..
Goals
Defining Leadership……..”The most important thing about goals is having one.”–Geoffrey F. Abert
Inspiring Leadership Quote..…….”This one step–choosing a goal and sticking to it–changes everything.”–Scott Reed
Goodbye to an Ethical Leader: President Gerald Ford may or may not have “made a deal,” but he was still a decent man of firm ethics who never wavered that he had chosen the correct path in pardoning Richard Nixon from possible prosecution related to Watergate. “I thought it was the right decision then, and I still think it was the right decision,” he said in one of his last interviews. Time has brought most people around to his way of thinking that to not pardon Nixon would have been an ugly burden on the country for years. As Ford himself noted, “most of the difficult decisions come to this desk,” and he was a leader underestimated in his ability to ethically handle the same.
James McNerty “A Leadership Imperative….Becoming a Lifelong Learner”……..Fred Manske Jr.
LEADER OF THE MONTH, JANUARY 2007
James McNerty, CEO Boeing
After two CEO’s left in scandal after as many years, McNerty “helped clean up a management culture tarnished with ethical improprieties,” stated Business Week in their Top Leaders of 2006 issue.
McNerty has been said to take a quieter, “numbers” approach to leading a company to achieve its goals.
“I’m unafraid to expect a fair amount from people,” he said. “It makes them so much better. The things you expect from people have to be so fundamental that they’re independent of people’s style, culture and function. So when we talk about the ability to chart the course for yourself and the people you work with, to expect a lot and inspire people to have the right values, to find a way and deliver results, these are pretty fundamental issues.”
As for himself, he is inspired “by pieces of people” like his former mentor Jack Welch and Apple CEO Steve Jobs (for his “ability to commercialize innovation.”)
McNerty has a summary of leadership qualities needed to attain goals ethically: “Expect a lot, inspire people, ask them to take the values that are important to them at home or at church and bring them to work.”
FEATURED LEADERSHOP ITEMS OF THE MONTH
SUBLIMATED PLAQUE WITH CLOCK…..a lovely way to remind any leader the most critical component of reaching goals: time properly used.
OUR CLASSIC LEADERSHIP DUO: Secrets of Effective Leadership and Spirit of Leadership, books that will help you stay focused on the proper ethical principles to achieve your goals.
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