Smart Business Columbus - Vol. 18 Nbr. 2, November 2009
David P. Blom keeps a list of five or six people he has encountered in his life who have had the biggest influence on shaping his leadership style. [...] you have that, it's hard to move an organization forward.
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Michigan Chronicle - September 16, 2009
The CEOs of Michigan's most significant employers united recently behind a comprehensive plan to turn around Michigan's economy called the Michigan Turnaround Plan. In addition, the CEOs announced that Detroit Renaissance and other CEOs across the state will unite to form an organization called Business Leaders for Michigan to advocate for and advance the plan.
"For the first time, leading CEOs from major businesses across the state are speaking with one voice behind a common agenda to accele...
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Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. - August 20, 2009
"I am honored to share a few of my fondest memories of Dr. Mary Henry. If it had not been for her encouragement, I would not hold a doctoral degree. In a community meeting at Avalon Carver, Dr. Henry made it known that it was more than important for me to accept "the scholarship opportunity" and "return home to mentor and be a role model for the girls and boys of the Greater Watts and South Los Angeles communities!" It was not what she said but HOW she said it. that I felt it a moral imperati...
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The Non-profit Times - July 01, 2007
Independent Sector will honor Susan Vail Berresford, president of the Ford Foundation, with the 2007 John W. Gardner Leadership Award in recognition of her work worldwide to ...
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New Orleans Magazine - Vol. 43 Nbr. 12, September 2009
Training a core of government, nonprofit and community leaders to effectively take command in crisis situations is the goal of Tulane University's new Disaster Management leadership Academy, a degree-granting program now taking shape. While Tulane's program takes an international approach, drawing on experts from around the globe, the academy's setting in New Orleans is significant, given the city's experience with extreme disaster and the highs and lows of applied disaster management after ...
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Smart Business Indianapolis - Vol. 6 Nbr. 8, July 2009
DAN MOCERI co-founder and CEO Convergint Technologies LLC GREG LERNIHAN co-founder and COO Convergint Technologies LLC Dan Moceri and Greg Lernihan founded Convergint with the intent to grow three businesses: security, fire and life safety, and building automation.
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Smart Business Los Angeles - Vol. 5 Nbr. 3, September 2009
"Once you've identified the values you want your company to embrace and embody, the pressure is really on you as the leader to keep doing what you're saying," says Regenstreif, also an owner and co-founder of the lighting and energy management company that does business as Regency Lighting and which generated $89 million in 2008 revenue. [...] your company should identify what your core values are.
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Smart Business Columbus - Vol. 18 Nbr. 1, October 2009
James R. Klein is a firm believer that every CEO needs a "Radar O'Reilly," just like the one Col. Potter had on the old TV series, "M*A*S*H." Radar was always there to deflect some of the less important obligations to allow his boss to focus on what truly mattered at that moment, says the CEO of Finance Fund, a 24-employee nonprofit financial services firm. Have a number of different teams that have team leaders that have the job of directing thought and activity around certain parameters th...
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Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. - October 08, 2009
National Urban League President/CEO Marc Morial challenged President Obama to deal specifically, and in more detail, with Black concerns; Professor Cornel West urges Blacks to give informed "critical support" to Obama. Other prominent figures suggest even while working on the president's behalf, people have the right to advocate for specific Black interests. And the same applies to Black leadership that often seems to forget their primary responsibility is to stakeholders and that that requir...
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Latino Leaders - Vol. 10 Nbr. 2, April 2009
... From the beginning, it was planned to showcase those great examples we have of Latinas all over the country performing exceptional leadership roles in almost every single field and industry. ...... Perhaps female leadership is something we need to promote and help create ...
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