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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Global Leadership Summit 2010 Day 2:Daniel H. Pink

From the conference notes: Best-selling author, business thinker, and former White House speechwriter, Daniel Pink has been credited with defining a new era in the workplace. His provocative business books describe the changing world of work. In A Whole New Mind, Pink examined the rise of "right brain"

Global Leadership Summit 2010 Day 2:Jack Welch

From the conference notes: Said to be the most studied CEO of the 20th Century, Jack Welch began his 41-year career with General Electric Company in 1960, and in 1981 became the company's eighth chairman and CEO. Fortune named him "manager of the century", and the

Global Leadership Summit 2010 Day 2

Today was the second and last day of the annual Global Leadership Summit held in South Barrington, Illinois at Willow Creek Community Church. As I mentioned in my post for the first day, more than 120,000 individuals in 70 countries and 400 cities are taking part in this year&

Global Leadership Summit 2010 Day 1:Dr. Peter Zhao Xiao

From the conference notes: A prominent Chinese economist, Dr. Peter Zhao Xiao was commissioned by his government to study the success of the American economy. He concluded that a moral foundation allowed the economy to flourish, argued that China's economy would benefit from the spread of the Christian

Global Leadership Summit 2010 Day 1

Today I had the opportunity to attend the first day of the annual Global Leadership Summit held in South Barrington, Illinois at Willow Creek Community Church. More than 120,000 individuals in 70 countries and 400 cities are taking part in this year's Global Leadership Summit. My goal

New Book Review: "Employees First, Customers Second"

New book review for Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, by Vineet Nayar, Harvard Business Press, 2010, reposted here: Putting employees first is an idea with which most are probably already familiar, the idea that putting employees first will bring benefits to customers. Putting customers first is

Personal Reading List: 3Q2010

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2010. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Amplifying Your Effectiveness: Collected Essays, edited by Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach, and Naomi Karten, Dorset House Publishing, 2000. Bridging the Silos: Enterprise Architecture for IT Architects, by

New Book Review: "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?"

Recently posted book review for Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?: An Executive's Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and to Make Better Decisions, by Patrick Leach, Probabilistic Publishing, 2010, reposted here: If all executives and managers had backgrounds in statistics, this

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition)"

Recently posted book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition): A Library of Universal Data Models for all Enterprises, by Len Silverston, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001, reposted here: It is worth repeating what this reviewer indicated in his review of the second volume in

RSNA 2009: Single Source of Truth?

This is the second installment of my discussion following attendance at the RSNA 2009 trade show event at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. The first installment discussed the faulty findings of one of the research exhibits, followed by my recommendations on how to properly construct the p-chart, a type of