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President's Letter Before January ends, I have pledged to finalize my New Year’s Resolutions. If you are still trying to decide what to improve in your own life, may I take the liberty of making a suggestion? New Year’s Resolution: Commit to life-long learning. Leader to Leader Institute is going to help you keep this resolution! The quarterly award-winning Leader to Leader journal provides easily accessed (it arrives in your mailbox!) leadership and management wisdom from this decade’s greatest thought leaders. Read it in one sitting or savor it article by article. (Not a subscriber? Join Leader to Leader Institute and receive a complimentary one-year subscription.) If you prefer leadership advice in small, but inspirational doses, make certain that you are subscribed to the complimentary "Leadership Tip of the Day" e-calendar, Brief and quotable citations from books, journal articles and speeches have been culled from our twenty years of publications and programs. Share the daily wisdom to inspire your colleagues, family and friends. As a matter of fact, we would appreciate if you share with others and encourage them to visit www.leadertoleader.org to learn about our programs and publications. While on the internet, click through to our new Leadership Dialogues video interviews and watch leaders such as Alan Mulally, Marshall Goldsmith, Jim Collins and Frances Hesselbein share their leadership secrets. If you follow us on Twitter, we will notify you every time a new Dialogue is posted.
Susan Phillips Bari Leadership Dialogues
"I had the honor of meeting the extraordinary leader, Brig. General Belinda Pinckney. She's another inspiring yet humble American with a big dream: she became the first African-American woman to be inducted into the Officer Candidate School's Hall of Fame. She's also one of only two African-American generals and one of only a dozen or so female generals in the United States Army." Read more here.Calling Social Sector Board Chairmen, CEOs and Executive Directors: Workshop Seats Available - Inquire ASAP On Friday, February 19, 2010, we will launch The Five Most Important Questions Workshop which introduces the newly revised third edition of Peter Drucker’s Self-Assessment Tool. We are honored to launch this complimentary offering as part of Leader to Leader Institute’s 20th Anniversary and the Drucker Centennial. Master Trainer, Cathey Brown, will guide you through an exploration of The Five Questions. Founder and CEO of Rainbow Days, a nonprofit that helps at-risk children live drug free, Cathey has delivered this framework to more than 100 social sector organizations throughout the country. Date: Friday, February 19, 2010 Contact Justine Elyse Green for more information. On the Blog Should We Have to Wait for a Crisis in Order to Transform Organizations in the Public, Private and Social Sectors? Roger Kaufman, Ph.D. Peter Drucker has always advised asking and answering fundamental questions of our organizations and of ourselves before deciding to continue, change, or stop a business practice. Now, as economic hard times affect all sectors, there is an opportunity for organizations to take Drucker’s timely and critical advice:
The Community Partnership Award Since 1945, a commitment to corporate social responsibility has been a hallmark of Mutual of America Life Insurance Company. The Community Partnership Award focuses on partnerships that address issues of social concern - "from child abuse to teen unemployment to homelessness among the mentally ill." To date, the award has recognized 130 U.S. partnerships among nonprofit organizations, corporations and government agencies. The 2010 Mutual of America Community Partnership Award competition is now accepting applications, with a deadline of April 1, 2010. Read more and download the application here. Recommended Reading Guiding Growth, by Mark Lipton
According to Lipton, "An effective vision statement is not a statement—it is a story. The narrative is what compels us to be part of an organization."
Guiding Growth shows that vision is an essential factor in building scalable organizations that last for the long haul. Guiding Growth provides examples of established and new organizations that have developed powerful growth visions and outlines a step-by-step process for establishing an actionable vision. Read about Mark’s experience writing Guiding Growth. Watch Mark’s Leadership Dialogue on Vision.About Mark Lipton Quote of the Month "Continuously improve. Increase your capabilities. Be a constant learner. Develop feedback systems—both formal and informal. Act on the feedback you receive. Thank people for feedback. Don’t consider yourself above feedback. Don’t assume today’s knowledge and skills will be sufficient for tomorrow’s challenges." Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust
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