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TechColumbus Leadership Series – 2011 Year in Review

January 11, 2012

The TechColumbus Leadership Series is an exclusive invitation only event with 50-75 small and large company Founders, CEOs and Presidents.  It is an opportunity for the best and brightest of Columbus leadership to share ideas and discuss best practices. It is a more informal and conversational forum than other events with discussion designed to create [...]

Randy Wilcox – Culture of Customer Service Creates a Competitive Advantage

December 7, 2011

Randy Wilcox is a Principal in the firm of Long and Wilcox which is a central-Ohio based real estate development company, a partner in Wilcox Development which is a Chicago based real-estate development company, and the Founder and Owner of Quest Business Centers. He founded Quest Business Centers in 1998 and Quest is currently the [...]

TEDx Columbus – Mind Bending Ideas

November 18, 2011

I attended TEDx Columbus on 11-11-11.  For those unaware of TED -  it is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach [...]

Innovative Leadership Fieldbook Reviewed by Harvard Professor, Jim Ritchie-Duham

November 8, 2011

Maureen Metcalf & Mark Palmer. . Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. Tucson, AZ: Integral Publishers.  Reviewed by James L. Ritchie-Dunham What is interesting about this book?  One of my favorite papers on “interesting” suggests that showing what seems to be complicated and disparate is actually straightforward and connected is interesting (Davis, 1971).  The world of leadership development [...]

Walk Out Walk On – Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze

October 25, 2011

I attended a discussion this morning led by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze about their latest book about leaders who walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs Who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they [...]

Leadership Innovation & Friends at Work

June 17, 2011

As we talk about innovative leadership, many people are likely wondering what this really means in concrete examples, not some theory.  One concrete example is the shift from the view that good leaders and managers ensure their employees are doing their work and not spending time on activities that take away from their focus on [...]

Resilience – Changing our Story

May 26, 2011

I taught a resilience workshop recently and a member of the group asked why we read stories about people who act as martyrs and how we hold them up as role models.  By holding people who lose balance as the goal, we encourage people to demonstrate behavior that does not support their overall physical, emotional and [...]

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