“Oracles” and “Moles”: How to Manage Key Performers Across the Knowing-Doing Gap

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“Oracles” and “Moles”: How to Manage Key Performers Across the Knowing-Doing Gap

In the 21st century, organizations succeed or fail on the strength of two currencies:

1. information and knowledge
2. proper execution to deliver results.

Historically, the delivery of successful products and services has always driven organizational profitability—effective action yields results. In the last three decades, largely as a result of the exploding technology revolution, information and knowledge are becoming equally important for individual performance and organizational success. However, in many organizations—the less effective ones—individuals have often been morphed into what can be referred to in their simplest terms as either: Thinking people – Shapers, or Execution people – Shakers.

Effectiveness Evaporates When Specific Styles Emerge and then Calcify
How do people end up as either Shapers or Shakers? Two reasons:

1. individual temperaments and learning histories
2. organizational culture, which tends to shape one style over another.

But this simple dichotomy does not really capture the nuances of how these types operate and how the work of the organization is impacted.

 

Donald J. Minnick, Ph.D. has provided organization consulting, leadership development and succession planning, executive coaching, team facilitation, change management, and training design and delivery to organizations for over 25 years. With a broad background in individual, organization/system dynamics, he has served a wide spectrum of clients in business and industry. He has served as an internal organizational development professional as well as an external consultant, partnering with internal change agents in a variety of organizations. Dr. Minnick has designed and managed organizational development and training programs for major international corporations and led in the design and delivery of programs for international branches of American corporations in Europe and Asia.

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Food and Refreshments provided by Apex Systems!

Apex Systems, Inc. is an experienced provider of comprehensive staffing solutions in the Information Technology industry.  Keeping up with constant innovations and staying ahead of the competition are challenges the industry is facing, and Apex Systems has the knowledge, support and resources available to help our customers achieve their operational goals. 

For more information please visit: http://www.apexsystemsinc.com.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM (CT)

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