Blog 1: What Are these Blogs All About?

Integrity, Accountability and Transparency in a team context are the basis of my executive coaching business, Executive Team Leadership, LLC. Yes, I realize that many executives, small business leaders, leading technical contributors and project managers (my target markets) look on abstract words like these with disdain.

Yet it is exactly these words--when turned into actions that yield quantifiable results within teams--that have generated the best successes in my 25 years within engineering, manufacturing and product development teams.

Clearly, the challenge is in showing the value of these words in action. How to approach this? Certainly through personal interaction via power-point briefings and the like. If you know a business or technical group that would like a free talk on this theme, let me know. And I will also spread the word through my website.

But most importantly, the word will be spread through these short blogs, no more than one page of text (“stories from the project management jungle” blogs may be a little longer). Ultimately they will be posted on my website, currently under construction. Please feel free to pass them along to interested parties.

I hope to be the center spoke of a community of people who are interested in reading and commenting on these blogs. So please send your comments and ideas.

I intend to thread several themes throughout these blogs. They are:
--Leadership in its various (good and bad) forms. Leadership (IMO) is one of the single most overused and misunderstood words in the business world.
--Teams. Business, sports, family, political, spiritual and other team types. Nothing much gets done in this complex world without teams, yet people struggle mightily in the business world and elsewhere to find functional teams to help them meet their dreams and goals.
--Diversity. In an increasingly global business world, we all need to be more aware that the best solutions come when a myriad of viewpoints are included in the decision making process. Sounds so simple…
--Balance. Achieving excellence in all key aspects of life: work, family, self, with significant others.
--And, of course, Integrity, Accountability and Transparency will be there.

That’s a wrap for now! Hope you enjoy the blogs and can participate.

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