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TNT: Blasting To The Top With Truth Not Technique (TNT)

The Secret of Change: Values Alignment

Top Ten Most Influential Ideas of Business

Why Dr. Fleming Can Deliver These Ideas

Dr. Fleming: In the News

When we think of the hundreds of thousands of business books out there, it is tough to really know what ideas have lasted, really mattered, or simply passed the intuitive test for hooking the most influential leaders worldwide.

In strategy and business, the Top Ten ideas mentioned below in this newsletter come out as the most critical in transforming companies into one-of-a-kind organizations that do ALL of the following:

Boost profit/revenue/marketshare
Improve processes
Evolutionize culture
Innovate
Align teams
Enlighten

How could ideas be responsible for such sweeping change?

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Can one really “dabble” with organizational change? Or is that like someone dabbling in morality with volunteering after work, but then having an affair? You get this point. Yes. Change is an all or nothing concept. If not, you get compliance not commitment to top-down transformation in BOTH belief and behavior. As one anonymous consultant mentioned:

“The moment there is genuine change in moral purpose, the organization
transforms”

If you doubt this and you wonder if morale purpose and sustainable value change is linked to bottom line, then you are not alone. The majority of corporate executives are not so brave or visionary according to a recent study conducted by Campbell Harvey and John Graham of Fuqua and Shiva Rajgopal of the University of Washington. Asked if they would pursue a positive net value project if it meant missing the earnings-per-share estimate for the quarter, 59% of financial executives admit that they would kill the project. Equally troubling, 78% of executives admit they would forego real value in order to meet their earnings targets.

Are profit and values alignment really competitors? Yes and No. Yes if you seek mere techniques and short term solutions. No if you seek long term transformation. Don’t trust me? Check out the link between moral purpose and conviction, and what follows below…

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According to the lastest issue of Stategy + Business Magazine (Winter 2005), here are the gurus’ picks for what really matters in driving success:

1. Execution
2. The Learning Organization
3. Corporate Values
4. Customer Relationship Management
5. Disruptive Technology
6. Leadership Development
7. Organizational DNA
8. Strategy-based transformation
9. Complexity Theory
10. Lean Thinking

Try doing any of these powerful ideas with moral conviction to a greater good. In comtemplating this, perhaps one will see what is really meant by William James’ pragmatism--- it is not doing what works; it is doing what works for the common good.

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Dr. Fleming has well established himself as an active critic of traditional corporate training programs. Focusing on sustainable change, values alignment, executive development of "core areas that matter" and having the most innovative tools to deliver, he has gained quite a following of personal and organizational clients.

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• Dr. Fleming invited to a luncheon this past week with Karl Rove, Chief Strategist for President Bush, as part of honoring contributions to small business development

• Dr. Fleming cited as an expert on current state of research for how to improve memory and performance in life so as to better understand the link between exercise and Alzheimer's. His contributions were noted in Consumer Health Journal, online only, at www.consumerhealthjournal.com. Rough date of publication: April 1 2006

• Dr. Fleming was interviewed for an article called "Anomia" for a May 2006 release date in a magazine called Physician Executive, published by American College of Physician Executives.

• Dr. Fleming will be representing North America as one of 4 change management specialists representing the largest group of international change consultants, www.change-facilitation.org, which represents over 40 countries

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