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Intrinsic Stability
How Organic Leadership Breeds Excellence
by Christopher Smith
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Overview


Christopher Smith is a 29-year safety professional whose passion and experience for creating excellence has provided him with unique insight into the creation of excellence and the effectiveness of leadership in fostering that excellence. Chris answers the question, "if excellence is claimed to be understood by so many people, then why is true excellence so rare?" Through many years of helping organizations strengthen their own brands of excellence, Chris has created a simple to understand, straightforward approach to creating sustainable excellence in any organization and at any maturity level.
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Description


There is so much incomplete information in the infosphere about creating organizational excellence and how growing excellence relates to leadership. There are very few truths in organizations more relevant to creating excellence than "the only excellence available to your organization is the excellence you create from your culture, at your maturity level, through your own wisdom". Organizations spend precious resources attempting and re-attempting to turn themselves into other organizations' cultures for the purpose of emulating those cultures in the pursuit of creating excellence. Intrinsic Stability, which is a process of continuous improvement that leverages organic leadership, is a simple to understand concept distilled from years of experience seeding organizations with the ingredients to create their own brand of excellence. These proven concepts can be scaled and applied at any organizational maturity level, in any industry, with the confidence that the organization will gain experience everyday these concepts are applied. Since this method of breeding excellence within your organization, through Intrinsic Stability and Organic Leadership, is grown from "your" culture and "your" capabilities, it is 100% sustainable. No more half starts toward organizational transformations with delays that result in abandoning your efforts and precious resources spent due to new process constraints becoming unsustainable. Chris uses a series of short stories, following major concept discussions, to provide an easy to understand frame of reference to allow the reader to better conceptualize Intrinsic Stability and Organic Leadership principles. There are no special certifications, expensive consultants or extensive organizational preparations needed. These concepts can be applied immediately. In sharing his experience and wisdom in this book, Chris invites you to open the door to a brand of excellence that is uniquely your own.

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About the author


Christopher Smith is a 29-year safety professional whose passion for creating excellence has provided him with unique insight into the creation of excellence and the effectiveness at all levels of leadership in fostering that excellence. His professional journey and personal transformation started with the question, "if excellence is claimed to be understood by so many people, then why is true excellence so rare?" Through many years of helping organizations strengthen their own brands of excellence, Chris decided to share his methods and observations founded from his experiences while serving some of the best organizations in the world. Intrinsic Stability: How Organic Leadership Breeds Excellence is born from those incredible experiences. Chris holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus on applied management but considers his time in the Navy and his work experience as his real education. Chris's roots were seeded in the elite Naval Nuclear Power Program where he held 3 licenses to operate 3 separate reactors in 6 years. His professional resume, after leaving the Navy, spans incredible iconic companies such as International Paper, Toyota, Owens Corning, and Winnebago Industries. Within each of these organizations, Chris held influential leadership positions with a focus on performing critical functions to support and strengthen the development of operations within those organizations' cultures.
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Book details

Genre:BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Subgenre:Leadership

Language:English

Pages:196

eBook ISBN:9781098363505

Paperback ISBN:9781098363499


Overview


Christopher Smith is a 29-year safety professional whose passion and experience for creating excellence has provided him with unique insight into the creation of excellence and the effectiveness of leadership in fostering that excellence. Chris answers the question, "if excellence is claimed to be understood by so many people, then why is true excellence so rare?" Through many years of helping organizations strengthen their own brands of excellence, Chris has created a simple to understand, straightforward approach to creating sustainable excellence in any organization and at any maturity level.

Read more

Description


There is so much incomplete information in the infosphere about creating organizational excellence and how growing excellence relates to leadership. There are very few truths in organizations more relevant to creating excellence than "the only excellence available to your organization is the excellence you create from your culture, at your maturity level, through your own wisdom". Organizations spend precious resources attempting and re-attempting to turn themselves into other organizations' cultures for the purpose of emulating those cultures in the pursuit of creating excellence. Intrinsic Stability, which is a process of continuous improvement that leverages organic leadership, is a simple to understand concept distilled from years of experience seeding organizations with the ingredients to create their own brand of excellence. These proven concepts can be scaled and applied at any organizational maturity level, in any industry, with the confidence that the organization will gain experience everyday these concepts are applied. Since this method of breeding excellence within your organization, through Intrinsic Stability and Organic Leadership, is grown from "your" culture and "your" capabilities, it is 100% sustainable. No more half starts toward organizational transformations with delays that result in abandoning your efforts and precious resources spent due to new process constraints becoming unsustainable. Chris uses a series of short stories, following major concept discussions, to provide an easy to understand frame of reference to allow the reader to better conceptualize Intrinsic Stability and Organic Leadership principles. There are no special certifications, expensive consultants or extensive organizational preparations needed. These concepts can be applied immediately. In sharing his experience and wisdom in this book, Chris invites you to open the door to a brand of excellence that is uniquely your own.

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About the author


Christopher Smith is a 29-year safety professional whose passion for creating excellence has provided him with unique insight into the creation of excellence and the effectiveness at all levels of leadership in fostering that excellence. His professional journey and personal transformation started with the question, "if excellence is claimed to be understood by so many people, then why is true excellence so rare?" Through many years of helping organizations strengthen their own brands of excellence, Chris decided to share his methods and observations founded from his experiences while serving some of the best organizations in the world. Intrinsic Stability: How Organic Leadership Breeds Excellence is born from those incredible experiences. Chris holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus on applied management but considers his time in the Navy and his work experience as his real education. Chris's roots were seeded in the elite Naval Nuclear Power Program where he held 3 licenses to operate 3 separate reactors in 6 years. His professional resume, after leaving the Navy, spans incredible iconic companies such as International Paper, Toyota, Owens Corning, and Winnebago Industries. Within each of these organizations, Chris held influential leadership positions with a focus on performing critical functions to support and strengthen the development of operations within those organizations' cultures.
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