Welcome to Mindful Leadership
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 26, 2009 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipIf I know your values, then I know what you stand for. At the same time your values tell me what you will not stand for. Lee Thayer has said: The role of the leader is to become a virtuoso question asker. And Pat Murray has added: “It is the leader’s role to maximize connection. [...]
Governing Ideas of Any Organization or Individual
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 26, 2009 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipA Vision, a purpose or mission, and core values are the governing ideas behind any enterprise -individual or organizational.
These ideas answer three critical question: “What?” “Why?” and “How?”
Vision is the “WHAT?” The picture of the future we seek to create. A personal vision is the goal pulling you forward that makes all the work worthwhile. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Leader is a Virtuoso Question Asker
1 Comment by Ozzie ML / October 29, 2007 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipThat statement about the leader needs to be a virtuoso question asker was gleaned from Lee Thayer back in the mid-80’s and has served me well and also the executives I’ve been privileged and honored to work with.
A fellow Vistage Chair and friend left being a Chair almost a year ago after seven and [...]
