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Howard M. Guttman
UPCOMING EVENTS
Great Business Teams:
Cracking the Code
Howard M. Guttman with Catherine
Burzik, CEO, Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
May 13, 2009
Human
Resource Services, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
Great
Business Teams at Mars Inc.
Howard M. Guttman with
Robert Landis, SVP Personnel & Organization, Mars
Inc.
June 1, 2009
ASTD 2009 Int'l Conference &
Expo
Washington, D.C.
DID YOU MISS THE AMA WEBCAST ON "LEADING BUSINESS TEAMS
THROUGH TURBULENT TIMES?"
Over 2,700 participants
registered for Howard Guttman's March 4th Webcast, and
feedback to the AMA indicated that the event more than met the
expectations of the audience. If you missed it, the Webcast is
now archived and will be available for the next year. To
access click here,
then scroll to the bottom of the GDS home page.
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"The Accountable
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Available in hard copy only. To order, e-mail Kathy
Cannon:
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GUTTMAN DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, INC.
Today's
corporate leaders are in a pitched battle with intractable
economic forces, which is why this issue of GDSI
carries an interview with Colonel Tom Kolditz, who draws
lessons from the battlefield for CEOs. Howard Guttman asks
senior managers to view themselves as wartime leaders, and
Klaus Oebel discusses corporate strategy and knowing your
enemy. Take five minutes and begin to read . . .
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LEADER'S CORNER: LESSONS FROM THE FRONT
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Thomas A. Kolditz is a colonel in the United States
Army, professor and head of the Department of Behavioral
Sciences and Leadership at West Point, and author of In
Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It
(Jossey-Bass, 2007). In this column, Colonel Kolditz shares
some of his thoughts on what makes a great leader--and a great
player.
Q. You and your colleagues at West Point
have been studying leadership, especially in combat
situations. What has been your biggest take-away?
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7 HABITS OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE WARTIME
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not the only battles
being waged these days. Over the past year or so, the downturn
has been waging an insidious war against corporations around
the globe. With unemployment skyrocketing, profits squeezed,
and corporations the size of General Motors teetering on the
verge of bankruptcy, today's senior executives would be wise
to view themselves as wartime leaders. Here are 7 habits worth
taking to the business battlefield . . . |
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FROM A CONSULTANT'S NOTEBOOK: STRATEGIC
WARFARE |
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In this column, GDS Senior Strategy Consultant Klaus
Oebel describes the actions taken by a company "under the gun"
from both corporate and competitive pressure. Here's how they
won both battles--and the war for market share.
Presenting Situation:A $500 million U.S.
consumer goods company, division of European parent . . . its
customer the professional channel that reaches consumers. . .
Relentless pressure coming from parent company to double
organic growth in 18-24 months, while maintaining current
profit levels. A second source of pressure: the mature nature
of the product and early onset commoditization in the
industry, resulting in erosion of profit margins. The
president and his team: "Outsized growth expectations for the
U.S. market, but we've always delivered and we'll do it
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HOWARD GUTTMAN CONTRIBUTES TO BOOK ON THE ORGANIZATION
OF THE FUTURE
A chapter authored by Howard Guttman
and titled "The New High-Performance, Horizontal Organization"
appears in a new book edited by Frances Hesselbein and
Marshall Goldsmith.
In The Organization of the
Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Insights on Managing in a
New Era some of the most recognized thought leaders of our
day share their vision of what organizations of the future
will look like and what they will have to do to survive.
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