Corporations - Soulless Machine, Living Entity or Both
Implications for Strategic Planning

Description:
The traditional paradigm for the last century is that organizations are like machines that can be re-engineered, optimized, streamlined and fine tuned. Over the latter half of the last century we have learned from Maslow, McGregor, Covey, Senge and others, the importance of our most important asset, our people. Yet little has changed in the underlying way organizations are run and strategies are executed.

There is another way, a path for the 21st century that draws from lessons learned by physicists, one that will create the unified theory of management. This approach will lead to the development of strategies that will leverage all the unique gifts of the organization. One that will build on existing strategic approaches and transcend all of them.

Who Should Attend:
CEOs, CFOs, COOs, other Executive Team Members, Board Members

Specific Outcomes:
Attendees will learn what it takes to make their companies the next winner in the marketplace. Norman will engage the audience into the experience of the power of this new approach and immediately see the value and how to apply it./p>

Key Learning Points:
- The 3 core mythos underlying the current paradigms
- The value of the machine paradigm
- The value of the organic paradigm
- Putting it all together the 21st century paradigm
- Strategic planning - the new integrated planning process

Presenter:
Norman Wolfe has spent almost 40 years working in a variety of organizations from Fortune 500 to technology startups. He is viewed as an expert in the areas of strategy execution, change adoption, process improvement, building teams, and providing intuitive insights that bring out the deeper dynamics of an organization.

He started Quantum Leaders in 2002 to help boards, CEOs, and their organizations execute strategy. Their emphasis is purely on execution. It is from this intention that Norman recognized the limitations of the old business maps and the need for a new model for CEOs and others to effectively lead their organizations.

Mr. Wolfe sits on the board and is chairman of the governance committee of a NASDAQ traded company, is a member of the board of a technology startup, is a founding member and secretary of the Technology Leadership PAC, and is the Chairman of the Board for Web Wise Kids, a non-profit agency educating youth on the safe and appropriate use of the Internet.

Other Topics by this Speaker:

• The Living Organization™
• Planning - Long Term vs. Short Term: The Opportunities and the Challenges
• Do CEOs Need Developing: The Board's New Responsibility
• The Board's Role in Strategy
• The 3 Truths of Business - and Why They Don't Work Like They Used To
• Will Boards Insist on CEO Coaching? What This Means to CEOs and Those Who Coach CEOs

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