Michael Winston

Throughout history, great leaders have understood that change brings tremendous opportunities as well as fresh risks. In this presentation, you will learn how great leaders throughout the ages…from the ball field to the boardroom, from politics to science, learned to survive- and even thrive- during turbulent times by adhering to timeless principles and maintaining flexible visions. While clearly "the past is not prologue", we can still learn the characteristics that lead to abiding success from great leaders in all walks of life. They all consistently communicate vision, inspiration, courage and character…critical components for leadership greatness! Lessons from Legendary Leaders provides a blueprint for true leadership.

The company that dominates in today's tough business climate will be the one with the most energizing vision, soundest business strategies, most empowering structure and culture, and most talented leadership team. The key to success is designing a total system of improvement in which these key elements are aligned.

This exciting program contains the results of over three decades of research focused on Creating a High Performance Culture to generate world-class performance. Participants learn new strategies for promoting a new structure and culture that will support the quest for ever-higher levels of excellence.

Today's knowledge explosion and the galloping pace of change demand an unprecedented learning response from organizations. Rapidly evolving technology, diminishing natural resources, increasing global competition, and a more diverse workforce - all are changes requiring organizations to learn more and to learn it faster in order to remain competitive.

To survive and prosper, companies must adopt a way of managing that is based on their capacity to learn and change -- consciously, continuously and quickly. "Learning organization" is not just a buzzword. It is a critical capability for any company that wants to navigate the coming years successfully.

Breakthrough: Organizational Learning uncovers the critical success factors discovered and employed by high-performing companies in becoming learning organizations.

Today's hyper-competition has eroded many traditional sources of competitive advantage. Technology can be copied or appropriated more and more quickly, economies of scale and scope are less important in a rapidly changing marketplace and a global business environment makes it more difficult to control access to resources or distribution channels.

The ways in which people are managed, in contrast, can lead to competitive advantages that are much harder to imitate. In today's business environment, it is clear that human capital and intellect drive business success. As organizations become more and more dependent on technology, human capital becomes more critical to long-term competitive advantage.

In good times and bad, there has always been, and will always be, a war for talent. You cannot be a top company unless you have top people. Developing Human Capital reveals important ways you can make your organization the premiere talent magnet.