Today's leaders confront a more profoundly uncertain business environment than most of them have ever faced.\n\nUncertainty of this magnitude will leave some leaders standing in the dust. The task of business leaders must be to
Key to the health and sustainability of any nonprofit is recruiting and retaining highly qualified, engaged, skilled, enthusiastic people to serve on the board. Today OneOC launched a three-part Board Excellence series featuring Janine McDonald, LaVal
Good listening—the active and disciplined activity of probing and challenging the information garnered from others to improve its quality and quantity—is the key to building a base of knowledge that generates fresh insights and ideas.\n\nPut
When Dr. Judy Rosener published "Ways Women Lead" in the Harvard Business Review in 1990 she put forth the idea that men and women exhibit different kinds of leadership attributes. She did not say one
Community Senior Serv (CSS) an Orange County nonprofit dedicated to meeting the needs of older adults, engaged Janine McDonald in affiliation with OneOC to provide training for 130 employees including kitchen staff, case managers and
McDonald was the keynote speaker at the recent Community Association Institute event at the Irvine, Marriott to a sold crowd of 350 on the subject of Boosting Personal Productivity. Participants were eager to discover the negotiable
In a matrix organization the emphasis is on sharing expert/specialist resources across projects that may, themselves, have shared leadership between project management and functional management. Because of this, for a matrix organization to be successful,
"I love this idea of wrong thinking-of encouraging people who have ideas to go see if they work and not dismissing them just because they sound like the wrong solution. No has the right answer
Let's be honest, while it's wonderful to give, it's not so bad to receive either. I especially look forward to the gifts my son makes for me. This year I was even more touched by
J9 Leading Solutions hosted students, faculty and staff at the Center for Energy & Sustainability at Cal State L.A. for a team building workshop to enhance and improve communication and team work using DiSC.\n\nDiSC Profiles
