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From 1993 to 2002 I was head writer for The masters
Forum, a Minneapolis-based executive education group that brought in the world's
top speakers for 4-hour sessions. It was a fantastic way for me to meet and
learn from the likes of Tom Peters, Peter Drucker, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. I
often likened it acquiring a stack of MBAs -- only less hideboind, and more
open-minded.
The opportunity came crashing to an end during a session
on "paradigm shifts" by Don Tapscott, coiner of the phrase describing
cataclysmic change, on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Within weeks, I was laid off, and the Masters Forum
never regained its power to influence leaders and managers in our neck of
the woods.
The era was one of tremendous optimism that leadership
cpuld ensure prosperity and quality throughout the world.
I still believe there is profound worth to many of the
insights I chronicled into how systems could best utilize human energy, and I
commend them to the inner leader in all of you:
Peter Drucker, "A Conversation with Peter
Drucker
Morris Shechtman, "Working Without a Net"
James
Collins, "Built
to Last"
Martin
Stoller: "The Going Gets Rough:
Issue Management and Crisis Communication"
James F. Moore,
"The Death of
Competition"
James Kouzes: "Credibility -- How to Get
It, How to Lose It, and Why It Matters"
James O'Toole: "The
Executive's Compass"
Michael Treacy,
"Value Leadership, Strategic Agility, and Organizational
Greatness"
Watts Wacker & Jim Taylor "The 2000 Year
Delta"
Hirotaka Takeuchi, "The Knowledge-Creating
Company"
N. Venkatraman, "IT & Strategy: The New Business
Logic"
Frederick Reichheld, "The Loyalty Effect"
Harriet Rubin & Avram Miller, "Personal Power and Leadership
Miracles"
Noel Tichy, "A Teachable Point of
View"
Rick Ross, "Systems Thinking Toolbox"
Fred Weirsema, "Customer Intimacy"
Nitin Nohria, "Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering the Essence of
Management
Richard Pascale & Tony
Athos: “The Art of
Reinvention”
Michael
Treacy: “The Customer Comes First,
But That's Not Enough”
Stanley Davis: “The
Coming of Knowledge-Based Business”
James Champy: “Managing the Reengineered
Corporation”
James B.
Maas: “Asleep in the Fast Lane”
James Brian
Quinn: "Intelligent Enterprise"
Max Bazerman: "Negotiating
Rationally"
Jennifer
James, "Organizational Goulash"
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