Forbes Features Friends of the CVDL in New List In late January, Forbes magazine published it’s first list of the best small companies in the country. Explaining what makes these companies so great, Bo Burlingham, the Forbes contributor who organized the list and the original author of Small Giants – the book that inspired the
“Competency to do your job is your ticket to entry,” says podcast host Dr. Linda Sharkey in her opening comments, “but values are really the defining factor. … It is going to be essential going forward.” Sharkey hosted CVDL co-founder and director, Dr. Jim Ludema, on her weekly podcast The Leadership Connection. Ludema tackled the
With a story straight out of a real-life spy thriller, Dr. Dave Smith (a 2014 graduate of the Ph.D./D.B.A. program in values-driven leadership) exposes the dangers of creating false signals within your company, in this short video. Leaders who create inconsistent cultures – who proclaim a culture of customer service, for example, despite behaviors that indicate
The number one rule for any respectable camper? Leave the campsite better than you found it. When my children were young, family vacations were often spent at campgrounds within national parks, where one rule prevailed: leave the campsite better than you found it. The idea, of course, is to respect the natural environment by not
Kevin Ashton was a young account executive for Proctor & Gamble in the late 1990s when he noticed one shade of the company’s lipstick was never on the shelves. Curious to better understand what was happening, he dreamed of putting microchips in the tubes, so P&G could know to ship the shade as soon as
CEO Indigo Triplett, a graduate of our doctoral program in values-driven leadership, was startled to get the message in the mail: the insurance company she’d used for years was now denying her coverage because of recent treatment for bipolar disorder. “That was a wake up call for me that you take a risk when you
We were once a society of workers who punched a clock and worked at well-defined roles from 9 to 5, for managers who gave us clearly defined tasks, at companies that employed for life, where change happened slowly. Well, no more. Median tenure in the US workforce is four years, work has seeped into our
Have you ever wondered what makes a manifesto meaningful? How do you make it memorable? Why are some so compelling that it creates a call to action? I remember the energy that Jerry Maguire poured into his manifesto, which was a game changer! One of my favorites is the Holstee Manifesto on “Life”. Every time
My vision for Blink (a Seattle-based user experience research and design firm) is to make a difference in the world through our work and our people. Every time we hire a new person I see it as an opportunity to impact the world in a positive way. Because we all work hard to nurture a
Recently, DG Macpherson, Group President of Global Supply Chain & International at Grainger, spoke with an audience of leaders at the Executive Breakfast Club of Oak Brook. Grainger is a business-to-business distributor of more than 1.2 million maintenance, repair and operating products in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, government and hospitality. Macpherson