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 [...]
Check out Lee Thayer’s Blog: The Leader’s Journey
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / October 29, 2007 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipI was first impacted back in 1986 when I first heard Lee Thayer speak to my Vistage 29 group, back then known as TEC 29. I have followed or at least attempted to understand his thinking about thinking. He continues to stretch and challenge the business leader to think about what needs thinking about. His [...]
Fifty Years ago, a concept called TEC was born
18 Comments by Ozzie ML / June 25, 2007 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful LeadershipBob Nourse around the age of 50 lost the family business. He had his brother managed it until Mongomery Ward found another vendor. It was over quickly.
Jim Handy, later hired by Bob, recalled that “Bob found himself on a profound search personally (What am I really about?) and professionally (What do I do?)”
This is the [...]
A Cartoon Capture of Lee Thayer’s Ideas on Leadership
0 Comment by Ozzie ML / June 11, 2007 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipFor some of you who might be interested in a Cartoon Capture of Lee Thayer’s Leadership ideas just type in “Thayer” for the password. This is the work of a long time friend, Brian Narelle.
Or you might want to look as some of his different ways of thinking and imagining at his blog.
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