My top accomplishments for 2015 include: • Establishing relationships within the Strategy, Projects, and Lean Office (SPLO) team, especially the SPLO Leadership team • Developing partnerships with the leaders of the Enterprise Infrastructure Leadership team, including leading discussions during the Logistical Consulting offsite and Leadership offsite sessions • Leading a cross-functional teams during both the Compliance Support and Learning Center End-to-End Offsite sessions First and foremost,
Words: 771 - Pages: 4
Introduction This paper will analyze the personality and temperament of Joseph Thomas, Vice-President of Operations for Global Positioning System to-Go (GPS). Comments will be provided on how Joseph Thomas moved through each of the four (4) stages in the project life cycle. The paper will determine the most appropriate personality traits that Mr. Thomas should adapt to successfully lead the teams for the Garmin product launches. Lastly, a summary of how I would perform differently if I were
Words: 1263 - Pages: 6
Operation Fortitude Lessons Learned Operation Fortitude Lessons Learned Abstract Examine the importance of deception in Operation Fortitude through lessons learned. Provide an understanding of how the Allies were able to successfully deceive the enemy, what methods worked and how they were able to close loose ends without enemy knowledge. . Operation Fortitude Lessons Learned Sun Tzu knew early on that “all warfare is based on deception (Giles, 2000, p. 3).” So it should come
Words: 1080 - Pages: 5
elements defined by the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR). The establish guidelines state that cost estimates and requirements documents must be prepared during the acquisition planning. The guidelines for DHS and NASA include considerations of lessons from the experiences of previous contracts as part of the acquisition planning. Additionally, these agencies have set different requirements for who must review and approve acquisition planning documents, to avoid oversights (GAO, 2011) 2.
Words: 932 - Pages: 4
Internal Entrepreneurship at the Dow Chemical Company Case BA 560 Fall, 2005 Prof. Dowling “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” Class Question: What is the genesis of the epoxy.com project? Class Question: What were important skills, characteristics and abilities of Ian Telford prior to the e-epoxy.com venture? Class Question: How did you vote on the request from Telford for $100,000? Case Question
Words: 704 - Pages: 3
for delivery each night after working his normal job. With the leadership of Jeff Bezos, Amazon has grown to the largest online retailer in the United States (Amazon). Leadership Style Jeff Bezos has multiple leadership styles. This is important as the leader of a company worth more than $175 billion (The World's Most Innovative Companies). Blanken (2013) explains that “if you’re leading well, you won’t have just one leadership style.” Jeff Bezos can be described as a “task-oriented transactional
Words: 1955 - Pages: 8
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. Harold S. Geneen Learning and leadership are indispensable from each other. ~John F. Kennedy "Dov Frohman and Robert Howard say that leadership cannot be taught—at least not in classes and slides—but it can be learned, especially in turbulent times, with brilliance and open-spiritedness. The story goes that sometime, close to a battlefield over 200 years ago, a man in civilian clothes rode past a small group of exhausted battle-weary
Words: 262 - Pages: 2
different characteristics that a person could have that could make them leader just like the North Star. Two years ago I attended a leadership conference as a student council. At the leadership conference, I learned
Words: 760 - Pages: 4
is to prepare a summary of the Harvard Business School Case Study “How GE Teaches Teams to Lead Change” and indicate whether or not GE is successful and what lessons if any can be learned from their LIG program. In 2007, Steven Prokesch attended the four day Leadership Innovation and Growth (LIG) program at General Electric’s leadership development center in Crotonville, New York. A year later he revisited the 19 senior managers who had attended with him to see how much influence the program had
Words: 1830 - Pages: 8
surgery include the board of trustees, medical executive committee, directors, senior management, nurses, physicians, other healthcare staff and ancillary staff. The senior management members are the role models for the hospital staff. Similarly, all leadership roles within the healthcare organization, formal and informal, must possess and exhibit the identical vision of zero patient harm (Chassin and Loeb, 2013). Additionally, the Risk Manager and Quality Department staff performs an important role in
Words: 905 - Pages: 4
