We will provide a customized speech, seminar or training program to enable your audience, business team to cover the following topics:

Who is going the WRONG way? -

This will cover:

• the continuing need to reduce costs and some of the past strategies.
• the fact that many of the major Korean, Japanese, Taiwan companies that have been early and heavy investors in manufacturing in China have recognized the problems and costs of China and are moving their operations to lower cost countries, including one of the best the UNITED STATES.
• There will be an evaluation of why China is following a traditional patent of becoming more costly and difficult to do business. This includes inflation, social unrest, increasing governmental rules and regulations, difficulty in getting qualified management and even the new labor laws that make it difficult and expensive to lay off people.
• An evaluation of the United States will also be included and its advantages and disadvantages.
• There will be a discussion of the RIGHT strategies and how they relate to different business and overall strategies.

The article that appeared in June 2008 Chief Executive magazine will highlight and describe the key points of the speech and program.

Learning from your Successes and Failures

Using the 126 year GE case study, there will be a discussion of what has made GE successful, as well as exploration of its failures. These lessons learned will focus on one word: LATIN, which stands for Leadership, Adaptability, Talent, Influencing and Networks. These are some of the highlights:

• Leadership- the major characteristics of successful leadership required for different strategies and situations.
• Adaptability- the willingness to adapt to changing situations and to be able to admit mistakes and change as required
• Talent- a discussion of when it is critical to "grow and keep your talent and when it is appropriate to outsource and use "just in time recruiting"
• Influence- illustrations of when it is vital to take public stands on issues that may not be "politically correct"
• Networks- discussion of when it is appropriate to have your own programs and systems and not just follow the "theme of the day"

The Secret to GE's Success and selective blogs will be used in these sessions.

The Harvesting of American Companies----

Too Many Surgeons….

Over the past several decades most companies have been harvesting their businesses in order to demonstrate short term earnings. In fact, the entire country is in harvest mode. One of the reasons is that companies don’t have the right leaders for the right time. Bill will describe the four key types of leaders the team required for different situations and strategies
The four types of leaders are:

• Risk takers- these are the innovative, entrepreneurial individuals required to create new businesses, develop new markets and even industries.
• Caretakers are those who are able to take over from the risk takers and institutionalize the organization, develop workable systems and develop long rang plans and strategies.
• Surgeons are those who are willing to do the required pruning, harvesting and exiting of the portfolio without any concerns about hurting feelings and attacking the sacred cows.
• Undertakers are those who have the ability to lead the organization out of business or find a suitable partner that will take it over.

"Risktaker, Caretaker, Surgeon, Undertaker- the four faces of strategic leadership" will be used for reference and to elaborate on the recommendations discussed in the program.

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to discuss your needs and Bill's availability.

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