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Driven to Success
A 10-Point Checkup for Achieving High Performance in Business
Author Name: Jane Goldner, PhD
About The Author: Jane Goldner, Ph.D., president and founder of The Goldner Group, is one of the nation’s leading authorities on talent retention and trusted advisor to Fortune 100 Companies, government and military organizations, and small to mid-sized businesses. She is also the author of Driven To Success: A 10-Point Checkup for Acheiving High Performance in Business, a step-by-step business guide for leaders.
Dr. Goldner has been a key consultant for organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Georgia-Pacific, Georgia Department of Defense, National Guard Bureau Domestic Operations, General Engineering Laboratories and The City of Boca Raton. She specializes in helping senior leadership resolve organizational problems in order to lead their businesses to the next level of success.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Goldner’s unique approach has enabled The Goldner Group to grow based on customer loyalty and referrals. The core of The Goldner Group forms the basis for her client partnerships in the areas of leadership and organizational effectiveness. Dr. Goldner leads her team by setting a goal to meet each unique client need. Building a solid leadership team and charting corporate structure for the future is critical to a company’s sustainability. By engaging talent throughout the company, she identifies and implements changes to continuously improve business performance.
Dr. Goldner, who has molded the senior leadership of multiple companies nationwide, uses her Business Operating System Solution for Enterprise Results to help companies reach their next level of success. She coaches leaders in building a well-connected organization that communicates across boundaries and is able to attract, develop and retain valuable employees.
Dr. Goldner serves as the board chair for GOAL, a non-profit organization focusing on adolescent girls and is a Pathbuilders leadership mentor. She is an adjunct professor at Kennesaw State University Coles College of Business.
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Driven to Success
"Most people select a high performance car for looks and engineering. They would not make the investment without knowing what's under the hood. Just as with a high-performance car, there are two parts of company success: the business of the company (products and services, the exterior look of the business to its customers) and the infrastructure (the internal systems, the interior functioning of the company). Both parts together support business success.
"High performance leaders need to have passion and a vision. They should be looking forward, scanning the landscape, watching the competition, and quickly but thoughtfully taking advantage of new opportunities while setting trends, acting nothing like a me, too company."
"Leaders need to leverage technology for interaction and real-time connection with the marketplace, get and use feedback, and use intuition as much as analysis to react to information."
"The core of the company is the chassis, the foundation upon which all the other parts rest. The core provides a clear, common focus and direction for your company. It is true north on your compass against which everything else is assessed. The core consists of the mission, vision and values."
"The mission defines what business you are in, the purpose of your company, why it exists. The vision describes what your company could be at its best if it were firing on all cylinders. Values drive behavior about how you want everyone in your company, including yourself, to treat customers and each other. Values also determine the rightness or wrongness of the direction you are taking the company." |
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Driven to Success
"A no-nonsense, how-to, nuts-and-bolts guide for ensuring organizational alignment and high performance. Written in layman's terms so that business executives and frontline supervisors alike can understand and take immediate action. Driven to Success should be an essential part of every leader's toolkit."
-Lori Addicks, Vice President, Learning and Development Post Properties, Inc.
"A great operator's guide that lays out an excellent roadmap for leading a high-performance organization. The book brings all the important concepts together in a logical, easy-to–understand, and useable format. It makes perfect sense to use this book as a personal leadership book, and it is a terrific teaching tool for leadership training programs."
-Major General William T. Nesbitt, The Adjutant General, Georgia Department of Defense
"There is more to being a visionary leader than what you can find in a book— however, this book is a great place to start. The 10-Point checkup is filled with practical thoughts and tools to focus the traveler."
-Alan Kaye, Senior Vice President, Mattel, Inc.
"I recommend Driven to Success as a sound practical approach to achieving better performance regardless of the size of your department, business unit, or organization. In this book Dr. Goldner shows you how to uncover the organizational gaps and leadership assumptions that can be obstacles to achieving high performance. It is an accurate reflection of her consulting work over the past twenty-five years. I know firsthand."
-Brian Wilkinson, Manager, Organizational Development, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
"I was enlightened by Jane Goldner’s easy-to-read, logical book. I loved the automobile metaphor throughout, which should resonate with anyone leading a business or with middle managers who lead teams and departments. In my business we deal with intangible products—songs. Dr. Goldner’s information is very pertinent for what we do at BMI. It will remain a readily available reference guide for me."
-Charlie Feldman, Vice President, Writer-Publisher Relations, BMI, New York
"People talk about the complexity of leadership... and that’s because leadership is people. Learning to lead effectively is a lifelong challenge, and Dr. Goldner’s book is a solid, powerful approach to meeting that objective. Driven to Success is a practical, tactical blueprint that can be used effectively in any organization."
-Rebecca Clements, Vice President, Global Pricing Strategy and Business Profitability, Ela
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The Business Operating System Solution for Enterprise Results©
Dr. Goldner specializes in working with senior leaders. Using the Business Operating System Solution for Enterprise Results©, which she created, she and her seasoned consultants help companies get to their next level of success by building a well-connected organization that communicates across boundaries and is able to attract, develop and retain valuable employees.
Opportunities to be Driven to Success
Practical, effective and successful leadership strategies start with vision, the a well-connected organization structure, involvement and adaptability to constant change. That takes thought before action.
“Power lies in the thought that precedes action,” says Dr. Jane Goldner, President at The Goldner Group and author of Driven to Success: A 10-Point Checkup for Achieving High Performance in Business. “Companies who think through how to evolve their organizations to support business growth will have the upper hand in the new economy.” Jane’s thoughtful advice comes from two decades of consulting with organizations seeking to identify and grow beyond their existing limitations.
Are You Looking For...
• Practical & effective leadership strategies?
• A vision that clearly focuses people on critical priorities?
• A well-connected organization structure where people communicate across boundaries and leverage resources?
• Talented people in your company who have the capability to adapt to constant change and who are high performers?
• To take your business to the next level of success?
If so, contact The Goldner Group for:
Keynote Addresses
Lively and engaging keynote addresses for leadership meetings and conferences that energize your leadership with practical strategies for driving high performance:
• Driving High Performance in a Running on Empty Economy
• Tune-Up Your Company for the New Economy
• What Ever Happened to Business As Usual?
• Formula One for High Performance Companies
• Success in a World Gone Crazy
• Creating a Belonging, Learning & Contributing Culture for High Performance
Workshops
Start Your Engines for Greater Competitiveness and Profitability
A 10-Point Checkup workshop customized for your organization that provides an in-depth opportunity for your leadership team to create a high performance organization through a focused vision, successful strategies and an appropriate structure.
Executive Overview
The 10-Point Checkup
A One Hour Executive Overview to discuss the 10-Points and determine how best to implement them in your business.
Process Implementation
The Business Operating System Solution for Enterprise Results Consulting
Assistance with installing any of the checkpoint processes that lead to business success.
404-459-2860
www.thegoldnergroup.com |
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