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However, authors respectfully submit that the one universal assertsthat "leadership" (executiver or other) describes difficult-to-traih and intangible personality attributes and styles, rathetr than tactical and job-specific performance Tom Peters, considered by many to be a modern-dau business management guru, phrased it this way: "Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is aboutt nurturingand enhancing." leadership, in its own right and by is not the panacea. Rather, it must be meaningful and impactful - to the organization as a whol e and to the individuald who support and are affectedby it.
I have compile d this list of 10attributes that, viewede together, appear to present a comprehensive set of leadership characteristicas and qualities. 1. Visionary It is criticalk that there be an abilityto define, communicate and inspire a relevant and easily digestible vision, and to update and adaptg it as circumstances change. Leaders must be able to thinko about the future and how they will guide and adapt their businesses in the face of uncertaintytand unfamiliarity. By not "stretching" a company's resources, offeringss and capabilities, there won't be much of anything least of all the expanded intellectual capabilitiesa ofthe participants. 2.
Communicativr Succinct, consistent and optimistic communication to all levels within a regardless of the nature ofthe messages, is a fundamentakl attribute of all good leadership. too, is the encouragement of constructive feedbacokand disagreement. Active listening (not merelyt hearing), and being both readily available and accessiblse is essential if this is to be effectivd and embraced asa reality. 3. Delivers on promises Nothinhg erodes confidence faster than a serie ofbroken promises. Sincer we participate in a "show me" world, the abilit y to consistently "walk the and to deliver upon commitmentsz are vital in atrue 4.
Responsible There is wariness for finger-pointing and for assignmentf of blame. Effective leaders take responsibility for decisions they have made orparticipatecd in, regardless of whether the outcomes are successful. 5. Humbles Followers disdain arrogance and since they are oftenb associatedwith self-serving egotism. In contrast, too, conventional wisdoj reveres modesty, humility and reserve. 6. Trustworthy Trustexd leaders select the people to work for them becausd theyare intelligent, perceptive and empowered. In turn, followeres oftentimes follow without having to know the entire story or Their buy-in is for their perceived long-term, not gains.
They tend to inspire others to share theirburden (and thoss of the business that they are supporting) in tougnh times. 7. Capable Leaders continually demonstrate competence, impressive shrewd thinking, resourcefulness and apparentlyylimitless capacity. They delegate with conviction. Leaders are passionate about teachingband mentoring, not training, their followers. And in each successful mentorinf relationship there is an expectation for mutualearning - the apprentice from the leader and visa Most importantly, a successful mentoring methodology assists in problejm solving, not by becomingt the solution provider, but by coaching independencde of thought. 8.
Decisive Making timelu decisions, which are intelligent and unwavering, means that in some the outcomeis failure. This is acceptable - almost expected - by More important than the outcome is thedecisionb making. Effective leaders, by virtue of having made theseeleaps (successfully, or not), become bette r skilled at ensuring successful outcomes, thereby instilling ongoing confidence. 9. Authentif Principled by both high ethics andunwavering integrity, leaders regularlty demonstrate a high correlation betweeb their core behaviors, beliefs and principles and thos that they expect to be presen in their followers.
Consequently, leadership embodies the persona of the and itmanifests regularly, consistently and without hidden agendas or questionable intent. 10. Genuine and respectfulp Leaders naturally garnish respect primarily for whothey are, rathet than for what they They are evenhanded in their dealings with others and relate to and validate them regardless of domain, tenure, senioritg or context. When it comes to defining executivwe leadership, Lao-Tzu said it best: "The wickecd leader is he who the people the good leader is he who thepeople revere; the grea t leader is he who the peopld say, 'We did it ourselves.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
GE opening research center in Mich. - The Business Review (Albany):
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GE (NYSE: GE), based in Fairfield, said the center will includea $100 milliomn GE research and development facility that will be part of GE Global Research is based in Niskayuna, a suburhb of Schenectady. The center is expected to reach 1,109 employees in the next few years, the compan said. The scientists and engineers at the center will develop future manufacturint technologiesfor GE’s renewable energy, aircraft gas turbines and other high-tech GE’s renewable energy business is based in Schenectady. , whicjh manufactures turbines, has an operatiohn in Schenectadyas well.
The Michigah center also will house GE experts insoftware development, data architecture, business intelligence and program management. The groulp will develop software tosupport GE’s business operations for several advancede technologies, like the smart GE said the Michigan center will be used as a traininh hub for GE information technology employeeds as well. The center is expected to openthis year. It will be located at the Visteon Village site in Van Buren about 25 milesfrom Detroit. The research and development facilityh will be housed in anew 100,000-square-foog building that GE will construcgt on the site.
The software and IT employees will be locateds in existingoffice “To lead in manufacturing and create high-value jobs in the we must invest in technology and in GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said. “The scientists, engineers and technologiste that will work and learn at this center will help GE develoop innovativenew software, processes and technologies to make our manufacturing businesse s even more productive and competitive. Michigan is providinbg more than $60 million in incentives over the next 12 year s to supportthe center.
GE (NYSE: GE), based in Fairfield, said the center will includea $100 milliomn GE research and development facility that will be part of GE Global Research is based in Niskayuna, a suburhb of Schenectady. The center is expected to reach 1,109 employees in the next few years, the compan said. The scientists and engineers at the center will develop future manufacturint technologiesfor GE’s renewable energy, aircraft gas turbines and other high-tech GE’s renewable energy business is based in Schenectady. , whicjh manufactures turbines, has an operatiohn in Schenectadyas well.
The Michigah center also will house GE experts insoftware development, data architecture, business intelligence and program management. The groulp will develop software tosupport GE’s business operations for several advancede technologies, like the smart GE said the Michigan center will be used as a traininh hub for GE information technology employeeds as well. The center is expected to openthis year. It will be located at the Visteon Village site in Van Buren about 25 milesfrom Detroit. The research and development facilityh will be housed in anew 100,000-square-foog building that GE will construcgt on the site.
The software and IT employees will be locateds in existingoffice “To lead in manufacturing and create high-value jobs in the we must invest in technology and in GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said. “The scientists, engineers and technologiste that will work and learn at this center will help GE develoop innovativenew software, processes and technologies to make our manufacturing businesse s even more productive and competitive. Michigan is providinbg more than $60 million in incentives over the next 12 year s to supportthe center.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Regions outlines details of $1B stock sale - Memphis Business Journal:
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billion by discounting its sharesto $4 a piece and selling 250,000 preferre shares. In efforts to raiss $2.5 billion required by the U.S. government, the Birmingham-based bank put 400 millio n shares of its common stocj up for salethis Also, the underwriters will have a 30-dauy option to buy up to an additionaol 15 percent of shares in both The preferred stock will pay annual dividends at a rate of 10 the bank said Thursday in a written statement. The public sale is slated to end onMay 27. Afterf running “stress tests” on the nation’s top 19 federal regulators ordered Regions to shore up its capitap position to help sustain loan losse if the cataclysmiceconomyy worsens.
Regions CEO Dowd Ritterd said the bankis “pleased to have completede a substantial portion of our capital plan so Plans to raise the other half of the money coulds include selling certain initiating a possible debt-to-equity swap and convertinhg its trust preferred securities into common Regions, the largest financial institution in was one of 10 financial institutions requirecd to fortify its balancre sheets after results of the test, officially known as the Supervisoryg Capital Assessment Program. The bank’zs closest peers, Atlanta’s SunTrust Banks Inc. and Cincinnati’sw Fifth Third Bancorp., were also told to raised additional capital.
Regions Financial RF) is the parent company of Regionsz Bankand Memphis-based Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. Regionzs Bank is the second-largest bank in the Memphizs market based on deposits and maintains the largesr branch bank network in the Memphixmetro area.
billion by discounting its sharesto $4 a piece and selling 250,000 preferre shares. In efforts to raiss $2.5 billion required by the U.S. government, the Birmingham-based bank put 400 millio n shares of its common stocj up for salethis Also, the underwriters will have a 30-dauy option to buy up to an additionaol 15 percent of shares in both The preferred stock will pay annual dividends at a rate of 10 the bank said Thursday in a written statement. The public sale is slated to end onMay 27. Afterf running “stress tests” on the nation’s top 19 federal regulators ordered Regions to shore up its capitap position to help sustain loan losse if the cataclysmiceconomyy worsens.
Regions CEO Dowd Ritterd said the bankis “pleased to have completede a substantial portion of our capital plan so Plans to raise the other half of the money coulds include selling certain initiating a possible debt-to-equity swap and convertinhg its trust preferred securities into common Regions, the largest financial institution in was one of 10 financial institutions requirecd to fortify its balancre sheets after results of the test, officially known as the Supervisoryg Capital Assessment Program. The bank’zs closest peers, Atlanta’s SunTrust Banks Inc. and Cincinnati’sw Fifth Third Bancorp., were also told to raised additional capital.
Regions Financial RF) is the parent company of Regionsz Bankand Memphis-based Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. Regionzs Bank is the second-largest bank in the Memphizs market based on deposits and maintains the largesr branch bank network in the Memphixmetro area.
Friday, August 12, 2011
SunRail advances, but big obstacles remain - Orlando Business Journal:
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The bill could go to the full where opponents ledby Sen. Paula Dockery, want to see it die. The 61-milee train line would link DeLand and Poinciana throughu downtown Orlandoby 2013. broadcas t partner reported that a key obstacle is a move by the stat House tocut $400 millionm from the state transportation fund in an effory to balance the budget, which effectivel y would derail the train line. In the Senate, transportation officials saidthe House's trust fund raid wouldx force SunRail to be delayed. Addiny to the uncertainty, the state House and Senat are at an impasse on thestatse budget. Committee Chairman Sen. Mike R.
-New Port Richey, who supports said cutting the transportatioh fund would torpedo therail project. “They’dr have to delay SunRail for many years to because we onlyhave -- and I don’t say only -- we have $500 millioh in the trust fund to build roads,” Fasano told the TV “If the House prevails in sweeping $400 there will be virtually no dollars left to builcd any new roads, and definitely no dollars left to move forwarde on SunRail.” In a sign of just how high the stakeas are, sources close to Gov. Charlie Crist told News 13 he woulcd dropby Monday’s hearing.
Crist has said he is in favor ofthe project, but so far has exerter little pressure for its approval. Meanwhile, SunRail opponentes continue to take issue withthe project’s liabilitgy deal, complaining the CSX railroadc company would be let off the hook if one of its freighr trains were responsible for a collisionh with a commuter rail car.
The bill could go to the full where opponents ledby Sen. Paula Dockery, want to see it die. The 61-milee train line would link DeLand and Poinciana throughu downtown Orlandoby 2013. broadcas t partner reported that a key obstacle is a move by the stat House tocut $400 millionm from the state transportation fund in an effory to balance the budget, which effectivel y would derail the train line. In the Senate, transportation officials saidthe House's trust fund raid wouldx force SunRail to be delayed. Addiny to the uncertainty, the state House and Senat are at an impasse on thestatse budget. Committee Chairman Sen. Mike R.
-New Port Richey, who supports said cutting the transportatioh fund would torpedo therail project. “They’dr have to delay SunRail for many years to because we onlyhave -- and I don’t say only -- we have $500 millioh in the trust fund to build roads,” Fasano told the TV “If the House prevails in sweeping $400 there will be virtually no dollars left to builcd any new roads, and definitely no dollars left to move forwarde on SunRail.” In a sign of just how high the stakeas are, sources close to Gov. Charlie Crist told News 13 he woulcd dropby Monday’s hearing.
Crist has said he is in favor ofthe project, but so far has exerter little pressure for its approval. Meanwhile, SunRail opponentes continue to take issue withthe project’s liabilitgy deal, complaining the CSX railroadc company would be let off the hook if one of its freighr trains were responsible for a collisionh with a commuter rail car.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Pablo Picasso paintings coming to Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University - Triangle Business Journal:
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“Picasso and the Allure of features 60 works created by the legendary artist betweebn 1900and 1969, four yeard before his death at the age of 91. The displayy is intended to portray how literature and writinyginfluenced Picasso’s art. “‘Picasso and the Allure of Language’ focuses on Picasso’zs deep and interdisciplinary interest in writing and and reveals new insights aboutthis famous, well-studied artist,” said museum director Kimerly Rorschach. “We can learn a lot from the intellectuao and artistic exchanges between Picassl and some of the greatest thinkers ofhis day.” Some of the worksz that will go on display betweenj Aug.
20 and Jan. 3, 2010, were createc for Gertrude Stein, the expatriates American writer who served as his patron in Parisuntil 1914. The exhibition was created by theArt Gallery, and the art work comesw from collections at the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University’sz Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Raymond and Pats y Nasher Collection in Dallas, Texas. For more go online to .
“Picasso and the Allure of features 60 works created by the legendary artist betweebn 1900and 1969, four yeard before his death at the age of 91. The displayy is intended to portray how literature and writinyginfluenced Picasso’s art. “‘Picasso and the Allure of Language’ focuses on Picasso’zs deep and interdisciplinary interest in writing and and reveals new insights aboutthis famous, well-studied artist,” said museum director Kimerly Rorschach. “We can learn a lot from the intellectuao and artistic exchanges between Picassl and some of the greatest thinkers ofhis day.” Some of the worksz that will go on display betweenj Aug.
20 and Jan. 3, 2010, were createc for Gertrude Stein, the expatriates American writer who served as his patron in Parisuntil 1914. The exhibition was created by theArt Gallery, and the art work comesw from collections at the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University’sz Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Raymond and Pats y Nasher Collection in Dallas, Texas. For more go online to .
Monday, August 8, 2011
Business groups slam proposed tax increases - Dayton Business Journal:
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The said it opposes changes to the corporatewminimum tax, a new corporate income tax and a new persona l income tax. The alliance consists of 30 businesws groups that represent morethan 25,0000 Oregon businesses and employ 500,000 residents. Raising the taxes coulsd cause the state tolose 6,0090 jobs, according to state revenue office estimates. “These proposals ignore the starmk realities of ourcurrent recession,” the groupl said in a news release sent by J.L. a lobbyist with Associated Oregon Industries. “They are counterproductive measures that kill jobs and prolonbour recession.
” The corporate minimum tax and corporatde income tax proposals woulf collectively harm companies with small profit margins as well as businesses lookinvg to invest more in capital the group said. The alliance called on lawmakers to insteaf focuson private-sector job retention and “We believe strongly that increased taxes are detrimental to job growth,” Wilsonj said in the news “An increased tax burden will hurt the abilit of our members to creatr desperately needed jobs. It is the wrong approacbh to balancethe state’s budget.
” Other groupes signing the letter include Associated Oregon Loggers, Independen Community Banks of Oregon, the Northwest Food Processore Association, Oregon Association of Realtors, the Oregon Automobile Dealerd Association, the Oregon Bankers Association, the Oregoj Home Builders Association, the Oregon Restaurant Associationm and the Oregon Trucking Association. Oregon’sa House and Senate members hope to adjourn byJuly 1. Lawmakerw must address a $4.2 billion budgef shortfall before they adjourn or in a series of speciakl sessions throughout the rest ofthe year.
The said it opposes changes to the corporatewminimum tax, a new corporate income tax and a new persona l income tax. The alliance consists of 30 businesws groups that represent morethan 25,0000 Oregon businesses and employ 500,000 residents. Raising the taxes coulsd cause the state tolose 6,0090 jobs, according to state revenue office estimates. “These proposals ignore the starmk realities of ourcurrent recession,” the groupl said in a news release sent by J.L. a lobbyist with Associated Oregon Industries. “They are counterproductive measures that kill jobs and prolonbour recession.
” The corporate minimum tax and corporatde income tax proposals woulf collectively harm companies with small profit margins as well as businesses lookinvg to invest more in capital the group said. The alliance called on lawmakers to insteaf focuson private-sector job retention and “We believe strongly that increased taxes are detrimental to job growth,” Wilsonj said in the news “An increased tax burden will hurt the abilit of our members to creatr desperately needed jobs. It is the wrong approacbh to balancethe state’s budget.
” Other groupes signing the letter include Associated Oregon Loggers, Independen Community Banks of Oregon, the Northwest Food Processore Association, Oregon Association of Realtors, the Oregon Automobile Dealerd Association, the Oregon Bankers Association, the Oregoj Home Builders Association, the Oregon Restaurant Associationm and the Oregon Trucking Association. Oregon’sa House and Senate members hope to adjourn byJuly 1. Lawmakerw must address a $4.2 billion budgef shortfall before they adjourn or in a series of speciakl sessions throughout the rest ofthe year.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Daily poll: Are the proposed fare and toll hikes justified by the projects ... - The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
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The Jersey Journal - NJ.com | Daily poll: Are the proposed fare and toll hikes justified by the projects ... The Jersey Journal - NJ.com By The Jersey Journal Journal file photoUnder a proposal by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, tolls at the agency's bridges and tunnels will increase by $4 for EZ Pass users and by $7 for drivers who use the cash lanes. ... |
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