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Transformational Leadership: The Missing Link in Your Organizational Chart
CEO of Extreme Arts and Sciences.
Co-Founder of Strategic Arts and Sciences.
Harrington completed his doctorate in Communication at the University of Oregon in 1992 and immediately began working as a consultant. Over the past 20 years Harrington has conducted hundreds of planning sessions and developed a wide range of change management strategies for companies large and small. His clients include companies like Microsoft, Adobe, hospitals, government agencies, and financial institutions all over the country. Harrington is also a sought after keynote speaker with a reputation for high energy provocative presentations. He is currently the CEO of Extreme Arts and Sciences and a partner with Strategic Arts and Sciences.
If you were paying attention last week you heard the alarms go off when the NOAA Observatory at Mauna Loa, Hawaii recorded the CO2 level in the atmosphere at 400 parts per million—the highest ever recorded. The good news is that you can stop with the cycling and recycling—the NOAA officials revised their May 9th… [Continue Reading]
On January 1, 2014 the affordable Care Act—Obamacare—will be in full effect. This is one of the biggest national “Who Moved My Cheese” moments ever. Even though the purpose of the act is break the cycle of spiraling costs and increase access to health care (which are good things), there is no doubt that before… [Continue Reading]
That was the response from a seat mate on a plane who asked what kind of work I was doing and I said, “strategic planning.” After his pithy “three words” response he went on to say, “The plan is worthless before it hits the paper.” Happily, I don’t think this gentleman speaks for 21st century… [Continue Reading]
On September 30th 1962, James Meredith took up the mission to integrate the University of Mississippi. The result was a cliff-hanging fourteen day showdown between the State of Mississippi, a mob of 2000 white civilians, 400 US Deputy Marshals and 30,000 American Combat troops. There are still bullet holes in the Lyceum, the venerable central… [Continue Reading]
Jeremy Bird served as the National Deputy Director for Organizing for America (the Obama campaign in abeyance) and he described the work of analyst Dan Wagner: “It’s one thing to be right when you’re going to win; it’s another thing to be right when you’re going to lose.” It is yet another to be right… [Continue Reading]
Over the past twenty years I have delivered hundreds of professional speeches; from lonely conference breakout sessions to substantial, large audience big productions in Las Vegas and Chicago. The vast majority of the time the gigs have played out well. I like to walk a fine balance between the deep idea and the immediately usable… [Continue Reading]
SWOT bites. There, I said it. I know, thousands of people love SWOT. It is a comfortable old friend in the gnarly process of strategic planning. You know the drill. People get together, pull out their flip-charts and markers and start listing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats in their business. But really, SWOT is… [Continue Reading]
Listening to the news it would be easy to believe that there are no jobs to be had for new college graduates or returning veterans. Current statistics reveal a flat, lackluster job market—with no real changes anticipated in the near future. So, we ought just sit back and wait for something to happen… right? Wrong…. [Continue Reading]
