Organizational Champion Webcast 07 – Connected Leader

 

 Organizational Champion Webcast 07 - Connected Leader [36:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes:

In today’s episode, Mike and Murray discuss the value of engaging and staying connected to all stakeholders as a leader.  It isn’t always easy be available, open, and vulnerable as a leader but as we move forward, leaders who can’t do that will be shuffled to the back of the pack.  We will talk about how to be a connected leader and why you might not have a choice…

In The News:
Small Business Sees Thaw

Question:
What does a Champion do right now to make sure that her company/division/team is ready to move when the economic stoplight finally turns green?

Links:
Blue Ocean Strategy
Who’s Got Your Back?
Mind of Moms Summit
Rockfish Interactive

Tags: champion, connected, leader, mike, organizational, Podcast, thompson, webcast

The Organizational Champion Sneak Peek #1

My new book, The Organizational Champion is set to be released on June 5th.  Prior to release, I thought I would give you, the readers of this blog, some sneak peeks into the new book.

Below is an excerpt from the Acknowledgments:

My social media friends on Facebook, Twitter, Champ’em, and The Organizational Champions blog—you have been a source of energy through this endeavor because your constant ideas and passions have helped ignite mine.

There are so many people who helped me write this book, not the least of whom is you, the Internet audience.  People who read and participate on this blog as well as people who follow me on Twitter.

I am excited for the book to be released and for the conversation to continue.  I have said before that my hope for this book is to ignite a movement, and you have an important role in that so I would be remiss to not recognize the contribution of you, the Internet audience.

Onward.

Tags: book, mike, release, theorganizationalchampion, thompson

The Organizational Champion Webcast – Ep. 04

 

 The Organizational Champion Webcast - Ep. 04 [48:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes:

We invite you to check out www.ChampEm.com.

WHY WE WORK:

• Through the Decades
• Today

SETH GODIN BIO:

• Author of 10 books on Marketing
• He has the number one most read blog about Marketing
• Pundit
• Thinker
• His job is to ask the questions and make observations that others can’t either due to their perspective or simple lack of time.
• www.sethgodin.com

TRIBES:
Our culture value system as moved toward what Marketing Guru Seth Godin calls Tribes.  Tribes are a group of people who are brought together by a common belief or idea and then moved toward a common goal.  In order for a tribe to exist, there needs to be a shared idea and a way to communicate.

WHAT IS IT THAT IS GOING TO DRIVE THE EXTRAORDINARY COMPANIES MOVING FORWARD:

• How do I adjust to such cultural shifts?

TWITTER QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
Does you workplace focus more on individual or team?

@jtnelso: ‘Our company’ truly focuses on each. But more so the individual.

@Stanleyyork: i think teams, b/c you build individuals through teamwork. rarely vice versa

guest: our workplace is all about building certain individuals

@mpaladino: Both, but would lean towards teams. Strong teams breed strong individuals. The converse of that is not always true.

Rodney: Revenue is the correct answer.

Rick: You develop people so that you have the building blocks to build a Team.  You can not sacrifice or prioritize one at the expense of the other.

Jennifer: My husband would say teams…as a high school principal he wants his staff to feel like a part of something bigger than just one classroom teacher, but I totally see Finley’s point about the church, too…

Alex: teams

Finley: individual for me…its one life at a time…that’s how we build the church

Scott: Teams

David: You build individuals with a team mindset. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done—because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower. Individuals or members of a team matter not without leadership.

JOIN THE CONVERSATION:
podcast@organizationalchampions.com
Mike’s Twitter Address: www.twitter.com/ThompsonOC
Murray’s Twitter Adress: www.twitter.com/MurDog

Tags: book, Godin, management, marketing, mike, Podcast, Seth, theorganizationalchampion, thompson, tribes

About the Author – OCWebcast – Ep. 03

 

 About the Author - OCWebcast - Ep. 03 [28:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Notes:

If you are going to spend 5,10, or 15 hours of your life devoted to reading a book, wouldn’t it be nice to know more about the author? And yet, most times all you get is a paragraph or two in the inside flap to let you know who the author is. We thought that’s enough of that. This episode is completely devoted to getting to know Mike Thompson. We hope you enjoy it.

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All This Talk About Creativity

I’ve been impressed lately by the play creativity has been getting from business writers. Fast Company has really highlighted the topic and has featured a number of articles that show how creativity helps leaders and their businesses get ahead. Check out the October edition of Fast Company - page 56.

This brief highlights the book Iconoclast by Gregory Berns. The brief and the book present how our brains are lazy and our creative or imaginative process defaults to what we already know. The brief goes on to suggest that creativity and imagination happen most often in new environments or with new experiences.

Next time you want to get creative or imaginative, take on a new experience – bust out of the conference or leave the seminar, and go find a mountaintop, a shaded tree, or a roller coaster. Your mind needs a little right brain action. You and your business will benefit.

Tags: berns, business, champion, champions, championship, company, creativity, development, Fast, gregory, Iconoclast, imagination, Leadership, mike, organizational, thompson, Training

New Organizational Champions book coming in April 2009

I’m extremely excited to announce that McGraw Hill has agreed to publish my next book.

Organizational Champions

Moving Beyond Leadership for Business & Society

Organizational Champions will be released in April of 2009 and will highlight the bounds of business, the power of business, the opportunity for business … and therefore, the need for champions, not leaders.

An Organizational Champion is an enlightened change maker who is sensationally tuned to altruistic values and relentlessly driven to possibilities.

The book will emphasize the differences in a leader and an organizational champion, and how organizational champions transform cultures and create irresistible companies.

I’ll be updating my progress over this blog. Please feel free to leave any and all comments. Your insights are valuable to me. Thank you. Mike.

Tags: business, champions, company, culture, Hill, Leadership, McGraw, mike, organizational, thompson