Last week I attended the Fall Conference of the Franchisee's of Renaissance Executive Forums.
Besides working and learning from each of our fellow franchisees, we participated in an extraordinary Workshop on identifying and executing your organizations "Inside Advantage" lead by Robert Bloom, author of the book bearing that name. (Also, authored most recently " The New Experts).
Each of us worked through Bloom's rigorous process to discover or uncover our unique advantage, how to secure engagement by our teams, how to communicate it effectively both inside and outside our organization and lastly, how to effectively implement our advantage.
What is the Inside Advantage of your organization? If you are not sure or just don't know then Bloom's book is a primer. By the way, Robert Bloom left us to return to be featured on the Bloomberg Business TV. Guess we scooped them because we had him on the CEO Hour two weeks ago (Sept. 17th) You may listen to him by going to the CEO Hour Archives.We were, also, challenged on another front by an in-depth dive into the Great Game Of Business by Jack Stack. If you are not familiar with the concepts or Jack Stack's work, then the GGOB is a must read.
Stack's story by itself was worth the time and price of admission. Besides building his current company from essentially less than scratch to the over $300,000,000 enterprise that it is currently, he has spun off over 56 additional companies from the original company. The most impressive thing to me is that his company developed the leaders for all of these spin offs. How is that for leadership development?We will be featuring the GGOB on the CEO Hour in the coming months culminating with our CEO All Member Meeting on December1st. More details to come.
Stay tuned to learn how to play the Great Game more effectively to win!
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