Muriel Jones

Nationally acclaimed author, Mark Samuel, on the value of creating an accountable organization.

Join Admiral Eric Olson on October 10 as he addresses leaders and managers worldwide on Team Building and Leadership in the 21st Century–via satellite and the web.

Strategic thinking has become the essential lens through which effective leaders at all levels know how to evaluate and prioritize the daily work of the organization. Effective strategic thinkers are those leaders and managers who have acquired the ability to manage the broader conversations required to shape the future of their organizations and outperform competitors. Are you a strategic thinker? Take this Linkage free self-assessment to find out.

Sunday night 60 Minutes on CBS had a segment on Walter Isaacson who spent the last two years working on the only authorized biography of Apple Co-founder, Steve Jobs.

Admiral Eric Olson tells the crowd at FOSE about his list of 10 commandments to build a high powered team.

“The thing that made Apple so successful was that Jobs realized that when you have a passion for profit instead of a passion for product, you will not make profits,” Isaacson said.

In this HBS interview, Linda Hill, co-author with Kent Lineback of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, addresses how managing yourself as an individual contributor is light years away from leading others. Great leaders must adopt a way of thinking about how they can influence their people to ever-higher levels of productivity and results.

Admiral Eric Olson — credited with developing the specialized forces that have accomplished some of the most notable military operations of the last decade — knows better than anyone how to get the most out of team members. In this short post on fcw.com, read some of the tips and fundamentals of leadership that Olson offered his audience at the FOSE conference in Washington, DC.