Resources for Success
Information of interest related to managing
change, employee involvement and teams, leadership,
education and training, quality principles and
practices, and human resource management.
ARTICLES
Check out our top picks to determine which
articles from other publications you should read in
their entirety.
Title: “Where Are the
Women?”
Magazine: Fast Company,
February 2004
Author: Ellen Weinstein
Location: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/79/women.html
Description: By now, plenty
were supposed to be in the corner offices.
It’s not working out that way. In many
fields, men still rule, while women often choose
more nuanced paths that keep them from reaching the
top. But who are the real winners?
Title: “It’s the Real
Thing: Authenticity”
Magazine: Darwin, February
2004
Author: John Baldoni
Location:
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/020104/authentic.html
Description: There is a great
deal of talk these days about authenticity and with
good reason—there is so little of it to go
around. Authenticity can be demonstrated through
being available, listening, and showing
respect.
Title: “American
Manufacturers: It’s Time to Innovate or
Evaporate”
Magazine: Innovation Tools,
February 5, 2004
Author: Robert B. Tucker
Location:
http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/EnterpriseDetails.asp?a=123
Description: The United States
lost 3 million manufacturing jobs in the last three
years, and countless marginal players have ceased
operations. There is, despite an uptick in factory
orders, still a deep sense of resignation in this
sector that asks, “How can we possibly
compete with China when all they do is produce
knockoff products with a wage scale that is so much
lower than ours?” Truly it’s time to
embrace innovation in a way that we’ve never
embraced it before.
Title: “Making Stakeholders
a Strategic Asset”
Magazine: Quality Progress,
February 2004
Author: Tito Conti
Location: /data/subscriptions/qp/
2004/0204/53making0204.html
Description: Quality models
indicate that managing stakeholders to enhance
their value generation capability is a winning
strategy. The first step is clearly limiting the
stakeholder role to those who cooperate to achieve
organizational goals. Opportunities and threats
arising from empowering stakeholders must also be
understood.
BOOKS
Not sure what current books are worth your
investment? News for a Change recommends
that you read the following recent releases and
consider adding them to your bookshelf for future
reference.
Title: The Six Sigma Path to
Leadership
Author: David H. Treichler
Publisher: Quality Press
ISBN Number: 0-87389-615-7
Format/Length: Hardcover, 270
pages
Price: $36.00 (AQP/ASQ members)
Description: This book serves
as a support guide for individuals charged with
establishing a Six Sigma system. It includes a
collection of stories showing how others handled
implementation problems, including both “how
to” and “how not to”
examples.
Title: Thinking for a Change:
11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and
Work
Author: John C. Maxwell
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN Number: 0446529575
Format/Length: Hardcover, 304
pages
Price: $22.95
Description: At the heart of
this book is a simple premise: To do well in life,
we must first think well. But can we actually learn
new mental habits? Thinking for a Change
answers that with a resounding
“yes”—and shows how changing your
thinking can indeed change your life.
Title: Put the Moose on the
Table: Lessons in Leadership from a CEO’s
Journey Through Business and Life
Authors: Randall Tobias and Todd
Tobias
Publisher: Indiana University
Press
ISBN Number: 0253342392
Format/Length: Hardcover: 184
pages
Price: $24.95
Description: This is an
enlightening and hopeful book about succeeding
without selling out, turning change to advantage,
and confronting difficult issues as told by the
former chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly.
WEB SITES
Bookmark the following sites to provide ready
access to up-to-date information that can improve
your organization’s performance, as well as
your personal performance.
Sponsor: Open Site, The Open
Encyclopedia Project
Address:
http://dmoz.org/Business/Management/Organizational_Change/
Description: Open-site aims to
be the most comprehensive, informational,
volunteer-powered Web site on the Internet. Its
purpose is to create, into an organized structure,
content of different types, from different topics,
and to share it with the Internet community. This
portion of the directory collects and posts
information related to organizational change.
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Address: http://www.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ppm/ppm36.htm
Description: The NASA
headquarters library compiles information for this
Web site. It contains a bibliography of books and
articles on change management maintained in
NASA’s library and available from many public
libraries. At a higher level of the Web site,
numerous other bibliographies on related topics are
also available.
Sponsor: Leadership Research
Interest Group
Address: http://www.gwu.edu/~leader/index.cfm
Description: This site is
managed by the United States Army Research
Institute (ARI) in collaboration with the
Consortium of Universities of the Washington
Metropolitan Area and The George Washington
University. The purpose of the site is to provide a
forum for researchers, teachers, students,
practitioners, and leaders to exchange knowledge,
opinions, research, announcements, questions, and
answers about leadership research. The site also
provides information about funding opportunities
and ongoing leadership research efforts sponsored
by ARI and other organizations.
CONFERENCES
Looking for the best conference to attend this
year? Here are some possibilities that might meet
your needs.
Conference: The Quest for
Excellence® Conference XVI—The Official
Conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award
Sponsors: NIST and ASQ
Dates: March 28-31, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Price: $1,045 for nonmembers (member
and group rates available)
Contact:
http://www.baldrige.nist.gov/Quest_for_Excellence.htm
Description: Learn about the
tool used by business, education, and healthcare
leaders to evaluate and focus their efforts on
performance results, leadership effectiveness,
customer and employee satisfaction, and process
management. Meet the 2003 Baldrige Award recipients
at The Quest for Excellence® (QE) XVI, where
they will share exceptional performance practices,
the journey to performance excellence, and their
lessons learned.
Conference: 58th Annual Quality
Congress
Sponsor: ASQ
Dates: May 24-26, 2004
Location: Toronto, Canada
Price: $711 prior to March 31
Contact: http://aqc.asq.org/
Description: ASQ’s
premier annual conference features presentation
sessions that are organized by topic, as well as by
industry track, and contain information suited to
beginning and advanced learners. Additionally,
there are several keynote addresses, networking
events, tours/activities, committee meetings, and
product and service exhibits. This year’s
conference incorporates the Team Excellence Award
competition, which has been a long-standing
component of AQP’s program.
Conference: 56th Annual
Conference and Exhibition
Sponsor: Society for Human Resource
Management
Dates: June 27-30, 2004
Location: New Orleans, LA
Price: $1,150 for nonmembers
Contact: http://www.shrm.org/conferences/annual/
Description: This year’s
conference features keynote addresses by Her
Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Earvin
“Magic” Johnson, Marcus Buckingham, and
Scott A. Livengood.
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