Leadership and Nurture Marketing
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / November 20, 2008 / Posted in Mindful BusinessAs a Vistage Chair going on 23 years, I have been blessed as have my members with exposure to men and women who have proven their worth by the success of their work and the inspiration they shared in all aspects of business and leadership.
One of those is a dear friend, Jim Cecil, who has [...]
Busy Trap: Leadership Starts with Leading Oneself
2 Comments by Ozzie ML / October 20, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipGood friend and former TEC Chair, Corey Olynik, has been writing a weekly column for a number of years called: Ideas? Questions! I’ve subscribed to it when I first found out about it. I thought I’d share his Idea/Question for this week of October 20th. A most helpful column to become what Lee Thayer so [...]
For Executive Coaches It’s All About Asking The Right Questions
1 Comment by Ozzie ML / June 4, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipSuzanne Livingston is a coach of Executive Coaches, a long time friend, and an insightful mentor. From Lee Thayer I learned that for leaders it is becoming a virtuoso question asker. For leaders and executives it is about asking the right questions even when having the right answers. It’s getting those that do the work [...]
Mind Breaking…Mindfully
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / June 4, 2008 / Posted in Mindful BusinessSome thoughts and reflections from Tom Lane . I was introduced by long time friend and fellow runner, Toni Davies who has brought together an amazing team of senior Kaizen/Lean consultants, business and executive coaches linked together at Davies Consulting. I am pleased to be able to share some of his perspectives.
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Executive Coaches Share: 100 Ways to Survive a Bad Economy
1 Comment by Ozzie ML / May 19, 2008 / Posted in Mindful BusinessThe following list is from a longtime friend and TEC & Vistage presenter: Barry Schimel. Barry gave me permission to share these 100 ways to survive in a difficult economy.
They are from his book: All About Earnings-100 Ways to Profit in the New Economy coauthored with Gary Kravitz. Barry now lives in Florida. He [...]
Free Download: How to Analyze Information
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / May 1, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipYou can get Herb Meyer’s Essay: How To Analyze Information: A Step-by-Step Guide to Life’s Most Vital Skill. Once you get to the URL you can download a PDF file, a Pod Cast or an Mp3 audio of the paper.
I had Herb speak to my Vistage 29 group a few weeks ago. A [...]
14 Article Special Report: Managing in an Uncertain Economy
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / May 1, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipHere is a 14 article Special Report on Managing in an Uncertain Economy.
My group, Vistage 29, was addressing these issues back at the beginning of 2007. Amazing the intelligence a group of diverse businesses can gather when they share their pieces of information about what they are seeing in their industries, trade associations and their [...]
Vistage/TEC Executive Business Coaching before it had a name
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / May 1, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipThe past 22 years of being a TEC Chairman then a Vistage Chair (when TEC changed its name) I work with CEOs, company presidents and managing partners. Vistage/TEC (as some partners have kept the TEC name) has been doing for 50 years. Finally there’s a set of names tht gets a little closer to [...]
TEC Florida: Stories are an important part of Red Scott’s Leadership
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / April 21, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipThe intention was to write a chapter in a book on storytelling in business that Lori Silverman was editing for Jossey Bass: Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results. Life got in the way and my choice was to give Lori an early warning that [...]
Leadership & Innovation: An Interview
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / January 22, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipI had the pleasure of being interviewed by Andrew Papageorge. Below is a summary on the Vistage View website
Chair News and Updates
San Diego Chair Featured in GoInnovate!
(Jan. 18) San Diego Chair Ozzie Gontang is featured in the January 2008 issue of the e-zine GoInnovate! produced by consultant and corporate innovator Andrew Papageorge.
Andrew interviewed the award-winning [...]
