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The Devil’s Paint Brush within Organizational Leadership

The Philosophy of LeaderShaping, the off-spring of the “Six Levels of Leadership,” depends heavily on “Communications” and “Intelligence” to be successful. When one or both of these elements becomes compromised, the result ...READ»

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LeaderShaping your Way out of the Downturn

The last 18 months have been the most trying in decades for business leaders. The conditions that normally make running an organization of any type – a business unit or a team rewarding is market expansion, revenue growth, rising pay, and incentives – have been absent for most, replaced by the unrelenting tasks of survival, retrenchment, and cost cutting. What should leaders do in this depressed environment? The first task of leadership, Bison argues, is to identify the default future, discuss it, and analyze it, and then go about re-imagining – and, in effect, rewriting the future. The Bison Group’s program, “The Six Levels of Leadership,” helps business leaders overcome the daunting task of facing the future, by teaching them to rewrite the future that leads to real business transformation with profitable growth. And the lessons are just as applicable to individuals.READ»

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Factors that Drive Positive Impact & ROI for Executive Leadership Programs

While sitting at a local coffee shop enjoying the company of two business colleagues, a significant question was posed that caused time to stop for a brief moment: “Skipper, how does your organization measure leadership ROI in plain language for an executive to understand when considering hiring your team?” READ»

Defining a Refreshed and Irreplaceable Type of Organizational Leadership: The LeaderShaped Leader

The LeaderShaped Leader sits atop a hierarchy of six significant leadership and organizational behavioral stages – and possesses the skills of all six. Individuals without these skills have gaps in their understanding of producing exceptional leadership for the 21st century and beyond. Gone are the days of good and great; the future requires exceptional and extraordinary. With these six skill sets, leaders are able to perform in ways that leaves others amazed because of their ability to make it look so easy (work and reward orientation and organizational impact), yet effective. The implications for leadership in non-LeaderShaped settings are highlighted.READ»

The Journey into the Greatest Test of Character – Leadership

For most would-be business and organizational leaders, the road to authoritative service begins at The Bison Group’s “Center for Integrative Leadership and Change (CILC)” in Philadelphia, PA., where participants find out if they’ve got what it takes to become agents of change – both personally and professionally.READ»

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LeaderShaped by Christ: My Outward Reform Began My Inward Renewal!

When Jesus caught his disciples arguing about who among them was the greatest, they felt embarrassed, but Jesus didn’t rebuke them or wanting to be great. He simply gave them an unexpected formula: Be a servant! Do you know this formula? Are you willing to change? Are you willing to exhibit humility, wonder, honesty, innocence, hope, trust and dependence? One Degree of Twelve is my journey into becoming a servant; my rebirth after being “LeaderShaped by Christ.”READ»

The “War Room” – When Innovation Intersects Strategy

Slashing innovation and R&D programs during the downturn may leave organizations and the leadership responsible for making decisions to drive performance at a competitive disadvantage and poorly positioned to capitalize upon opportunities as good times return. That's the key message of a new report from the world's leading innovation website, which incorporates advice from some of the world’s leading innovation experts. The report provides a valuable set of best practices and strategies that companies can use to help maintain their innovation initiatives during the current global economic downturn. As part of this study, a collection of innovation experts and practitioners were contacted to learn more about the strategies they recommend for maintaining innovation during challenging economic times. Respondents include Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts, business strategist with The Bison Group consulting firm in Philadelphia, PA and some of the best and brightest innovation authors, bloggers, consultants, and practitioners. Pitts was asked to take part in the study demonstrating his firm’s philosophy for intersecting innovation with military and battlefield strategy. This valuable article is available for free by downloading the attachment. A copy of the innovation report is available by sending an email to: Solutions@thebisongroup.com. Additional information on the topic can be seen by visiting his web address: http://www.thebisongroup.com. Questions? Please send an e-mail to dpitts@thebisongroup.com.READ»

Why Workplace Politics Charts the Path to Build GREAT Teams and Performance

When most people hear the phrase “organizational politics,” they react very negatively. They see politics in the workplace as forming clicks and another way to keep those who go against the status quo labeled as an outsider. ...READ»

The Bison Group Appoints Business Development Specialist “Gordon Enterprises” to Head Reseller Recruitment in North America

Philadelphia, PA. – 8 December 2008: The Bison Group ® Corporation, the world leader in military-style executive education and LeaderShaping Applications, today launched its Reseller Partner Program for the North American ...READ»

Military Training and Simulation is Increasingly Required by Business & Industry

TheThe Bison Group ® Corporation has announced the integration of the “Process of LeaderShaping” initiative – a framework that identifies the behaviors (Organizational Behavior) and influences (Transformational Leadership) ...READ»

Organizations, People & Performance

HumanSigma Ideation™ When an organization doesn't meet the stakeholders' needs and expectations, the cause is rarely a misguided posture, purpose, and alignment of strategy or vision.Instead, underperformance is more often ...READ»

Change Management and Talent & Organizational Performance

As we continue to look at ways of being effective within our productivity, it is important to understand that the workforce has to do much more than just “work harder” and increase throughput. The workforce must rapidly be ...READ»

The Downside, a Tough Economy. The Upside, Opportunity Lies Within Us!

The Building Great Teams Project. Here we are standing at the doorstep within the 2008 economy knocking hard to come inside. Only, the door remains shut with no answer. We continue to knock, and knock hoping that someone would open ...READ»

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The Seven "T's" of Oz to Your Personal Transformation

A Long Walk On A Short Path Keeping in the tradition of providing clever and entertaining instruction for people to grow their lives, I have teamed up with a new author, Leslie Ann Smith, to help develop an ...READ»

A Long Walk On A Short Path

The Seven “T’s of Oz” and Your Personal Transformation When we think about the reasons that one must take better care of their life, it would be smart to begin thinking outside of the norm for your way of accepting the ...READ»

Leadership & Flexibility: What We Can Learn From “The Elevator”

As in leadership, elevators are constantly moving. They remain constant, moving up and down, to transport individuals and items floor to floor. The ride never ends. It goes on and on, up and down, side to side until another person ...READ»