Best Practices in Leadership Development

It is just being announced that Mick is co-chairing the "Best Practices in Leadership Development Summit" in San Diego, September 16th -19th this year.

The keynote faculty includes:

• Carly FIORINA, CEO, Hewlett-Packard (1999-2005) and author of Tough Choices
• Bill GEORGE, professor, Harvard Business School; former CEO of Medtronic; author of Authentic Leadership
• Steve KERR, former managing director and CLO of Goldman Sachs, former CLO and VP of Leadership Development at GE
• Tom KELLEY, general manager of IDEO; best-selling author of The Art of Innovation
• Gary HAMEL, “the world’s reigning strategy guru” according to The Economist
• W. Chan KIM, author of Blue Ocean Strategy; professor of management, INSEAD
• Kelly HANNUM and Jennifer MARTINEAU, Center for Creative Leadership
• Roger NIERENBERG, former conductor of the Stanford Symphony; creator of The Music Paradigm
• Stephen MILES, regional managing partner Americas, Heidrick & Struggles; author of HBR article entitled: The Leadership Team—Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas?
• Erin GRUWELL, celebrated and inspirational teacher depicted in the movie The Freedom Writers
• Bob FULMER, renowned expert in leadership development, co-author, Leadership by Design

The idea is to gain insight into the critical success factors, latest innovations, and greatest strategies used by the most advanced management and leadership development practitioners.

Developing great leaders and building a distinguished leadership brand is becoming more complex and more difficult with every passing year. How do you acquire or develop leaders with the range of skills, knowledge, and abilities required? How do you provide them with the tools and techniques needed for success? How do you stand apart from your competitors?

The Summit aims to provide the knowledge, network, and tools needed to maximize an organization’s leadership capability and brand.

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In Summary .... Tom Peters

From Tom Peters Blog ...

"I've been working on various forms of my Master Presentation, pretty much fulltime, for the last couple of weeks. A post yesterday started a rather vigorous discussion about success "rules" that withstand the test of time. Virtually nothing—you, me, the corporation, the nation—withstands the test of time. And one of the principal reasons is hardening of the philosophical arteries—increasingly rigid interpretations of yesterday's "success" rules.

So I outright reject success "rules" or "eternal" principles. Nonetheless (whoops, here it comes), you gotta do something. What follows is as far as I will go. My first list has three items:

• Cause (worthy of commitment)
• Space (room for/encouragement for initiative-adventures)
• Decency (respect, grace, integrity, humanity)

That is, find something useful that turns folks on, give them a lot of room to try their own interpretations thereof—and offer them the respect they deserve for participating in the game with commitment and determination.

I actually like my second list better, consisting of some four items:

• Hire Great People (Resilient, Passionate)
• Try a Lot of Stuff (S.A.V.-Screw Around Vigorously/R.F.A.—Ready. Fire. Aim.)
• All "Wow" All the Time (Shoot for the moon—in every circumstance)
• Enjoy It While It Lasts (And it ain't gonna last forever, so you might as well keep swinging)"

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