Fred Speaks Out
Our partner Fred Harburg is the author of a series of lively, informative and provocative articles in Chief Learning Officer magazine. Reflecting on his experiences as a senior executive and best practices as a CLO, Fred is an outspoken advocate of creating simple, “elegant solutions” that show people their enormous potential. Read a few of Fred’s favorite articles and drop him a note about what you think at FredSpeaksOut@3rd-River.com.
- The Three Essential Elements of Learning and Development
- It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over: The Beginning of E-Learning
- A High Calling
- They're Buying Holes, Not Shovels
- Maybe It’s Me!
- The Emotionally Intelligent CLO
- Déjà Vu All Over Again
- Leveraged Learning: The Power of Coaching
- The Learner’s Search for Meaning
- Testing One, Two, Three—What Type Are You?
- Leader as Learner—Frame, Sense, Reflect, Drive Action
- Learning How to Learn
- Contrast: The Mother of Learning
- Running for the Ribbon
- A Salute to Outstanding Educators
- Fast-Food Learning?
Community Partners
We are pleased to be affiliated with Dr. John Stahl-Wert, President and CEO of the Pittsburgh
Leadership Foundation. John is the co-author with Ken Jennings of The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful
Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business and Your Community. This best-selling book
has been translated into seven languages and was published in Chinese in Spring 2006. John and
Ken have taught The Five Actions of the Serving Leader to executives in China who find strong
alignment of these principles with their vision for the future of Chinese business.
John’s research and writing on leadership and management focuses on performance and quality improvement through strategies that strengthen worker commitment to excellence and team-work. John’s speaking and lectureship assignments concentrate on the subjects of leadership, change, personal and community transformation, and how leaders grow.
For over ten years, John has been responsible at Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation to develop new projects from inception to successful operation, and to train new leaders. In this regard, John’s initiatives have surpassed $40 million of positive investment in the economy of Pittsburgh. He is on faculty at Geneva College in the Graduate School of Leadership, teaching in the Masters Program for Organizational Leadership. As a currently active CEO, John’s teaching on leadership is formed by real-world experience, examples of challenges leaders face, and strategies for growth and success.
See what our colleague John and the PLF are up to at www.plf.org.
The Serving Leader
Through no fault of their own, the book by Ken Jennings and Dr. John Stahl-Wert
has become a bestseller, now in its seventh language around the world. See
The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions
That Will Transform Your Business, Your Team and Your Community and the
resources available to help you implement a servant
leadership approach within your organization!
Using a compelling story format with highly sympathetic characters, Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wart make servant leadership accessible to a wide audience. At a time of increasing concern about ethics at the top, The Serving Leader makes the case for an approach to leadership that is both more moral and more effective than the ruthless, anything-for-the-bottom-line approach taken by many that has brought disgrace -- and often ruin -- to many once-mighty organizations.
The Serving Leader is the most practical guide available to implementing servant leadership, as well as being a book about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires.
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Ten Thousand Horses
Ten Thousand Horses offers a new approach for moving apathetic employees from passive compliance to active engagement.
It is told in an entertaining, page-turning fable format and draws on findings from an authoritative Gallup study of 4 million workers from 360,000 workgroups.
Matt James is in trouble. Recently promoted to head his division, he has delivered two years of divisional losses in clients, market share, and profits. He knows his workers are talented and creative, but they don't respond to his efforts to lead them, and he's on the brink of being fired. In desperation, he reaches out to an old mentor, David Butler, who now works with wild mustang horses and hard-to-place foster children on a ranch in Colorado. David agrees to work with his former student but only on the condition that Matt comes to him--to the ranch. Matt has no idea what the ranch could possibly have to do with his problems, but David assures him that if he spends some time there, he'll learn exactly what he needs to know.
Through David's unorthodox tutelage, Matt discovers that leaders who succeed in engaging their workers do so because they see their day-to-day work as an opportunity to build an organizational culture of engagement. The engagement model is illuminated as Matt comes to understand its components piece by piece--and ultimately discovers how to engage those on his team and in his life.
In this inspiring leadership fable, John Stahl-Wert and Ken Jennings draw on their years of experience as consultants and chief executives, as well as on findings from Gallup's groundbreaking Q12 survey of 4 million workers from 360,000 workgroups, to lay out an innovative leadership model that will turn employees from dutiful drones to committed contributors. But Ten Thousand Horses is also a story of personal transformation. Beyond specific practices and techniques, Matt must learn a whole new way of relating to his employees--because, as he discovers, leading an engaged workforce is as much about who you are as what you do.
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