Letter from the CEO Greetings Momentum Subscribers,
Greetings from Chicago.
Yesterdays announcements about Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy and
Merrill Lynch being bought by Bank of America are sending shockwaves
through the financial markets. World stocks fell along with the Dow and the dollar. As thousands of Lehman employees walk onto the streets of Manhattan, we wonder what's coming next. $700 billion dollars of shareholder wealth was lost on September 15th.
Along with that news, it's election time, and it seems that everyone around me (myself
included) has been obsessed with the US presidential race in all its
drama. The divisions are stark and partisan politics seems to be ruling the day.
How in these times can we remember that we are all one people, facing a crisis together? How can we heal our divisions and our fear, and face the future as a unified community? How can we keep ourselves viable, engaged, and thinking strategically? We need to create opportunities to become more sustainable, in fact more generative, in order to survive long-term.
Sustainability doesn't just mean "green" or ecologically friendly - it means building our institutions to last for the long haul, to care for people, planet, and profits. Sustainability means taking the time to think carefully about our next steps and make decisions that will benefit not only our short-term gain, but our long-term viability.
Karlin Sloan
CEO
Karlin Sloan & Company
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Sustainable Futures
by Karlin Sloan
As you and your organization think about the future, what are you doing to activate employees to conceive of and bring about a future you want to be part of? Are you really looking at the realities of the marketplace and planning for how your organization can meet the needs of the future? How can you address issues of your own economic stability?
Recently our organization went through a day of discussion around future trends, and how we see what's unfolding in the following areas:
Economy
Environment
Social Sphere
Technology
Politics/ Regulatory
When we take the time to reflect on "what is", then we have the opportunity to dream "what could be". Taking this time out to think is something that many of us have stopped doing enough of, and the results can be bad news for our organizations. Three questions to ask are:
- What are any upcoming risks we need to address in each of these areas?
- What are any upcoming opportunities for us with our existing offering?
- What will we need to create, change, or adapt for the future?
A colleague of mine, Elizabeth Olson, named her consulting firm
"Preferred Futures" which I have always loved. Why? Because if we think
strategically and plan well, we can create a future we want to have,
rather than adapt to a future we didn't want in the first place.
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A New Way of Dealing with Outplacement
In order to address our client's needs, we at KS&C have created a new outplacement program that looks at the whole person and focuses on empowerment. Unlike traditional outplacement which is focused on the tactical world of resume writing and interview skills, our program is focused on personal vision, values, support systems, and commitments for the future. It is a process of transition and transformation that builds loyalty to the organization even after a layoff.
This program, Visionary Transitions, is available in individual and group modules. To find out more, please contact us at clientrelations@karlinsloan.com.
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Quotations
""Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity." - Vince Lombardi "In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first -- ahead of personal glory." Paul Bryant
"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion" - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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2009 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT:
Jan 26 - Jan 29, 2009
Wharton Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania Announces
Positive Leadership: Leveraging Strengths to Optimize Performance
Staying positive may be the most important thing you do as a leader during tough times.
Based on the latest research and proven best practices, Positive
Leadership: Leveraging Strengths to Optimize Performance prepares you
to:
Leverage your leadership strengths to deliver the highest level of performance.
Gain skills and strategies for maximizing productivity, engagement, and retention.
Develop an action plan for leveraging individual, team, and organizational strengths.
The program helps leaders create hotbeds of vitality and
productivity within their organization - precisely the skills that
identify leaders for rapid advancement.
JOSEPH RYAN, PhD
Academic Director
KARLIN SLOAN, MA
Featured Presenter
FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE.
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