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  • Make Your Protege an Organizational Disciple

     Each year organizations around the world spend billions of Dollars, Euros, and Yen, to train new employees. Unfortunately, organizations lose billions when they lose those people on whom they spent all that training time and money. There are well-documented reasons for this phenomenon and chief among them is lack of loyalty – organization to employee and employee to organization.More

  • Socio-Technical Systems and Organizational Values

     Modern organizations define themselves using statements of vision. They state their vision in terms of human resources and technology, a socio-technical view. Modern organizations also define themselves in terms of values.More

  • The Strategy of Leadership is Thinking, Vision, and Planning - The Future Depends On It

     Grammar speaks of events occurring in three plains. The past was, the future will happen, and we live now, the present. However, operating in the information age, the age of instant global communication, makes the future now.More

  • Virtual Teams in Education

     The future of business is not in brick and mortar institutions as historically viewed. The proliferation and miniaturization of communications mediums, cellular telephone, fax, Internet, personal data devices, and lap top computers, make offices available where people are – not where the office is. Carpenter (1998) wrote the internet is more versatile for communication than any medium available today.More

  • Define Your Position: Values, Ethics & Leadership

     Some call it wearing one’s heart on the sleeve; others call it wearing their emotions. If the discussion is of values and ethics, leaders must wear them openly, constantly encouraging, mentoring, and coaching others to operate within values-based and ethical standards the leader expresses. Values and ethics exist in a philosophical arena and often mistaken as the same.More

  • Mark 10:17 to 22 -- Jesus and the Rich Young Man

     The Gospel of Mark is a narrative, in the oral tradition of early Christian teaching. To understand the story of the rich man’s conversation with Jesus, one needs to view the Gospel in total. In this Gospel, Jesus is a mentor and teacher of the people.More

  • Nebraska's Contentious Political Environment

     The bi-annual open season for mud slinging and dirty tricks is quickly coming to a head. On November 7, 2006, Americans go to the polls to elect local, county, state and national leadership. However, the difficult question to answer is, are leaders elected?More

  • Followers Want Acknowledgement, Too

     It appears a person seated at the pinnacle of a hierarchical pyramid no longer heads the modern organization rather leaders are active participants with their human resources. There is shared power in work groups and the leader exercises power within the group not power from a hierarchy. A question remains however, what do followers want from leaders.More

  • Diversity: IBM versus Monitor Company - What Can We Learn?

     A question for executives to answer is whether they are on board with diversity in their organizations’. Taking a cursory view of diversity at IBM versus Monitor Company, one sees an outward projection at IBM and inward projection at Monitor. The executives of these two global business giants do not have a shared strategy of diversity.More

  • Values – a Continuous Process: Finding the Genesis

     Sociologists attempt the definition of values in terms of cultural or societal norms, mores, and folkways. Philosophers explain values in terms natural discovery, the natural human instinct to know, carried forward from ancient Greece and writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. Judeo/Christian value definitions come from Biblical text both Old and New Testaments.More