...Rick Speckmann Senior Business Advisor Inspiration “Wisdom is knowing what to do, Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.” -David Starr Jordan With 40 years of business management/leadership/ownership experience, wisdom is an ever-present deliverable in Rick Speckmann’s work. He is quick to smile when referring to his wisdom because of the many lessons he’s learned throughout his career. He quips, “Those hard lessons of ‘wrong’ decisions proved pretty expensive. Thankfully, I am a determined optimist, so I just kept trying. I ultimately leveraged that experiential learning into a set of skills that delivered a series of remarkable successes. The virtue in that is I can pass forward those ‘best practices’ to our members.” Rick’s leadership responsibilities include roundtable development, outplacement services, strategic planning facilitation, and executive coaching. Expertise High energy, an optimistic outlook, and an insatiable appetite for “raising the bar” of performance are among Rick’s strongest traits. With a diverse background in nine different industries, Rick brings a broad spectrum of skills to the MRA team. Past experiences in five companies as a founder, partner, and manager honed his skills as a decisive leader, strategist, marketer, and developer of talent. Key Accomplishments • • Owned and led four companies through triple-digit growth, achieving industry-leading retention rates of more than 92 percent. As CEO of a human performance consulting company...
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...Ethical Leadership R. Edward Freeman Lisa Stewart Featuring a Thought Leader Commentary™ with Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO, Office Depot, Inc. © 2006, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics www.corporate-ethics.org Distribution Policy: Bridge Papers™ may only be displayed or distributed in electronic or print format for non-commercial educational use on a royaltyfree basis. Any royalty-free use of Bridge Papers™ must use the complete document. No partial use or derivative works of Bridge Papers™ may be made without the prior written consent of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. A PDF version of this document can be found on the Institute Web site at: http://www.corporate-ethics.org/pdf/ethical_leadership.pdf Bridge PaPers™ Uniting best thinking with leading business practice. ContEnts Foreword .................................................................................................... 2 What is ethical Leadership ...................................................................... 2 Becoming an ethical Leader ..................................................................... 8 developing ethical Leaders ...................................................................... 9 Thought Leader Commentary™ with steve Odland ............................. 10 about the authors ................................................................................... 13 ForEworD what Is EthICaL LEaDErshIp? The...
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...Developing Ethical Leadership R. Edward Freeman Lisa Stewart Featuring a Thought Leader Commentary™ with Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO, Office Depot, Inc. © 2006, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics www.corporate-ethics.org Distribution Policy: Bridge Papers™ may only be displayed or distributed in electronic or print format for non-commercial educational use on a royaltyfree basis. Any royalty-free use of Bridge Papers™ must use the complete document. No partial use or derivative works of Bridge Papers™ may be made without the prior written consent of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. A PDF version of this document can be found on the Institute Web site at: http://www.corporate-ethics.org/pdf/ethical_leadership.pdf Bridge PaPers™ Uniting best thinking with leading business practice. ContEnts Foreword ....................................................................................................2 What is ethical Leadership ......................................................................2 Becoming an ethical Leader .....................................................................8 developing ethical Leaders ......................................................................9 Thought Leader Commentary™ with steve Odland .............................10 about the authors ...................................................................................13 ForEworD The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate...
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...Round Table Discussion #2: Friday Afternoon June 16, 2017 Ally ship is Rooted in Co-Liberation: A 21st Century Perspective on Addressing Personal Biases and Micro aggressions in the Profession Presenters: Kijua Sanders-McMurtry-Assoc. Vice President and Dean or Community College Diversity, Agnes Scott College and Kristian Contreras, Director of Diversity Programs, Agnes Scott College. This interactive workshop discussed developing skills related to ally ship. I must say I had never heard of the term ally ship until this workshop. Understanding now that the definition is “an active, consistent, and difficult practice of unlearning and re-evaluating”. The focus was how as leaders we must steer a combative political climate in America, and how our biases and issues of identity affect our behaviors, which may have lasting effects on diversity and inclusion initiatives on college campuses....
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...D.Min. Project Prospectus Sharon L. Smith I. Title: Bridging the Gap: A Pilot Project Aimed at Mutually Equipping Church and Business Leaders for Kingdom Impact II. The Context: Followers of Jesus Christ who possess a divine calling, talents, and gifts to work and serve God through specific voluntary or paid vocations in the workplace face daily opportunities to impact the Kingdom of God. When believers walk by faith and obedience in the revelation that God’s divine presence and purpose is with them daily in their work lives, God empowers them to lead change that can transform lives, businesses, and even nations. Believers clearly see this truth in the lives of Abraham, Joseph, Daniel, and Nehemiah. The Great Commission (Matt. 28) commands believers to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every person. This directive includes Holy Spirit-empowered witness in the marketplace with signs, wonders, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation. As His priests (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1-2), God calls believers ordained for the twenty-first century workplace to worship and serve Him through their actions, words, and works. God’s Word calls for excellence in whatever a person does (Col. 3:17). Fruitfulness follows when believers root biblical ethics in excellence, and practice it in relationships and business decisions. Anthropologists and missiologists are observing major global shifts causing leaders to revise their understanding of the notion of culture...
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...REGENT UNIVERSITY The Understanding and Practice of ServantLeadership Servant Leadership Research Roundtable – August 2005 Larry C. Spears President & CEO The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? —Robert K. Greenleaf The mightiest of rivers are first fed by many small trickles of water, and an apt way of conveying my belief that the growing number of individuals and organizations practicing servant-leadership has increased from a trickle to a river. Servant-leadership is also an expanding river, and one which carries with it a deep current of meaning and passion. The servant-leader concept continues to grow in its influence and impact. In fact, we have witnessed an unparalleled explosion of interest and practice of servant-leadership in the past fifteen years. In many ways, it can truly be said that the times are only now beginning to catch up with Robert Greenleaf’s visionary call to servant-leadership. The idea of servant-leadership, now in its fourth decade as a concept bearing that name, continues to create a quiet revolution in workplaces around the world. This article is intended to provide a broad overview of the growing influence this inspiring...
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...Community-based Organizations and Servant Leadership Abstract This work will examine the framework of community-based nonprofit organizations and explore characteristics and challenges that affect their relevance and sustainability. It will also reference the key tenets of servant leadership as initially described by Robert Greenleaf in 1970 and describe how principles of servant leadership might effectively be applied to community-based nonprofit leadership, board governance and volunteerism. . Nonprofit organizations are an integral part of life; they operate to provide public benefit rather than serving their own special interest. A large percentage of nonprofits are community-based and especially vulnerable to the volatile nature of the economy and labor market, despite providing services and aid to the very segments also affected by those factors. Limited resources also restrict a small nonprofit’s ability to attract and retain talent capable of creating, sustaining and effectively achieving a viable vision for the nonprofit. By utilizing the tenets of servant leadership, community-based nonprofits may have an opportunity to tap into, and effectively develop, local talent that has an innate desire to serve the community. The principles of servant leadership are a natural fit for leadership framework in community-based organizations due to the innate nature of one serving the community in which they reside or work. This work will examine the framework of...
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...Selected papers from the 9 UN roundtable on communication for development COMMUNICATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT th COMMUNICATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT th Selected papers from the 9 UN roundtable on communication for development Research and Extension Division Natural Resources Management and Environment Department FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2007 The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. ISBN 978-92-5-105883-1 All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission...
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...Welcome to WritePoint, the automated review system that recognizes errors most commonly made by university students in academic essays. The system embeds comments into your paper and suggests possible changes in grammar and style. Please evaluate each comment carefully to ensure that the suggested change is appropriate for your paper, but remember that your instructor's preferences for style and format prevail. You will also need to review your own citations and references since WritePoint capability in this area is limited. NOTE: WritePoint comments are computer-generated writing and grammar suggestions inviting the consideration and analysis of the writer; they are not infallible statements of right/wrong, and they should not be used as grading elements. Also, at present, WritePoint cannot detect quotations or block-quotes, so comments in those areas should be ignored. Please see the other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. Starbucks: A Responsible Company Represented by Their Enacted Values Stephanie White BCOM/230 Hannah Rosette August 20, 2012 Starbucks:...
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...and Enterprising (Embrace the spirit of leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity and boldness to step up, and step out) * Encourage holistic development of BBA students beyond academics * Improve the evaluation parameters in the allocation of SEP places to students * Increase transparency in the SEP selection system Operational Objectives * Reduce weightage of the Cumulative Average Point in SEP admissions/allocations * Include co-curricular parameters into the overall consideration for SEP admissions/allocations * Ensure a transparent, meritocratic system of selection/allocation of SEP places to students who demonstrate the values of the School (ACE) Grading Structure Parameter | Max number of points/Weightage (%) | Remarks | Cumulative Average Point (CAP) | 70 | CAP to be re-weighted to 70% (Out of a possible maximum of 70 points, down to 2 decimal places) | Co-curricular Activity (CCA) Involvement | Up to 10 | Applicants will be awarded up to 5 points for each CCA involvement. A maximum of 10 points (2 CCAs) can be counted.Can be NUS based and/or non-NUS based.Important note:This will be mutually exclusive to the “Caring for Community” section, so students who are in a CCA centered on volunteerism will only be allowed to enter that involvement in either of the sections.See Appendix A for point allocation | Caring for Community | Up to 5 | See Appendix A for point allocation | Leadership & Entrepreneurship | Up to 5 |...
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...PERSONAL STATEMENT It was the summer of 2009, when I knew: I am going to be a Humanitarian Architect. I was attending a week long inner city mission’s trip, Mission Peoria/Dream Center Peoria, and the keynote speaker was challenging his audience to find their calling in life. Each morning my team was serving in an urban school district, government housing facility or elderly housing development. I was overwhelmed with the deterioration of the school, neighborhood and culture around me. As I realized my future, I knew I could make a difference in communities through designing educational facilities, retail developments or community centers. Being a Retail Contractor Association Scholar would provide much needed debt relief my fifth and final year at Drury University. I only have $6,000 Federal Stafford Loans available to borrow next year, and will have $15,000 of unmet need. This year my family has an EFC of $12,382. I currently have $31,515 in student loans. I am...
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...shared a desire to come together in creating a community that could create its own destiny rather than having it shaped by the taxing entities in the surrounding area” (Deen, n.d., para. 2). Since that time the City of Hudson Oaks has become a vibrant leader in the development of eastern Parker County. With a city limits containing 8.29 square miles Hudson Oaks is not considered a large community by anyone. It is however a very progressive and well planned community. “The City of Hudson Oaks and its elected and appointed officials deeply value long-range planning. This is why the City has taken a leadership role in initiatives to seek regional solutions to challenges shared by all cities in eastern Parker County” (Deen, n.d., para. 5). This has allowed the city to manage is commercial and residential growth in a way that benefits its residents as well as its business owners. Single family housing in Hudson Oaks is still the primary mode of housing. There are no apartments in the City of Hudson Oaks with no plans of building any currently filed with the city. This has remained constant since the incorporation of the city back in 1978. Housing costs have risen over the years with the estimated median home value in 2009 of $230,815 compared to $156,300 in 2000 ("Hudson Oaks," n.d., p. 1) but the city boasts approximately a 3.4% rate of vacant housing units. City planners view regulated zoning is key to integrating the community in...
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...where all employees treat each other with equality, dignity and respect, where employee individuality infuses high- performance teams. Xerox is committed to diversify in the workforce which is a success as a company. Xerox views achieving diversity in its workforce as a tool to increase its competitive advantage, rather than as an obstacle. Xerox is an Equal Opportunity Employee (EOE) and applies these principles to its recruitment, selection and retention strategies to promote cultural and racial understanding and to achieve diversity at all levels of the Company. Xerox has implanted a number of programs: a) Balanced Workforce Strategy b) Corporate Champions c) Caucus Groups d) Training and Development e) CEO Roundtables f) Work life Xerox diversity record has frequently been recognized by external organizations over the years. In 2007; Diversity Best Practices names Xerox among the top-10 U.S. companies in its report, Best of the Best: Corporate Awards for Diversity and women 2003-2004. Xerox was also No. 10 in the “top-50 companies for Diversity” by Diversity INC Magazine, No. 17 in Fortune Magazine list of 50 Best companies for minorities and among “top-30 companies for executive women”, according to the National Association for Female Executives. 2. Diversity means creating an environment where all employees can grow to their fullest potential. Xerox knows that employees with different ways of thinking and different ways of perceiving the...
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...Unilever claims that corporate social responsibility, including environmentalism, is at the heart of its business. However, the transition to a responsible and sustainable company is an ongoing process. Unilever has attracted some criticism from activists on not achieving the high aims and goals the company has communicated publically and internally. Despite the criticisms, Unilever has been at the forefront of its industry to initiate processes and create transparency in in its operations, especially regarding the environment. Even in its infancy, Unilever had difficulty balancing ideals with business goals. Unilever's founding companies produced products made of oils and fats, principally soap and margarine. At the beginning of the 20th century their expansion nearly outstripped the supply of raw materials. In an effort to reduce increasing costs due to World War I and growing limitations on supplies, former business rivals join forces, at first in the form of trade associations. These companies set up negotiations intending to prevent others from producing the same types of products but instead they merge to create Unilever. After struggling through the Great Depression and World War II, one of the main products companies were trying to develop was detergent. Soaps are made of materials found in nature and are break down naturally in the environment. A big drawback from using soap is that the minerals in water react with those in the soap, leaving an insoluble film...
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...hospital” as part of its long-term strategic plan. MEDICO (which owned Abbott Hospital) was struggling financially. Sister Mary Theresa (on behalf of Mt. Mercy) offered $18 million to take over Abbott Hospital operations. Transfer of ownership was to be approved by the Project Review Board of the Auston Council of Governments, Northeastern Oklahoma Health Systems Agency and the State of Oklahoma Health Services Agencies. The staff of health systems agency were not convinced this was the correct purchase price. They were concerned with the lack of formal assessment given to evaluate Abbott Hospital’s value. They also questioned the rigid leadership style of Sister Mary Theresa. Media Relations (Public Perception): The leadership style of Sister Mary Theresa was also questioned by the general public and doctors within the regional community. Many local doctors went “on the record” opposing the acquisition of Abbott Hospital by Mt. Mercy. These doctors believed Sister Mary Theresa to be cold, strict and only working in the interest of Mt. Mercy, the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and, most importantly, the Catholic Church. One of the most outspoken doctors (Dr. Martin Leeham) had approached the city...
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