Visionary Thought Leader
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As a team leader, I believe in the principles of Situational Leadership.  In this model, there is not a single management style that works for all team members. Rather, each team member is given guidance and oversight based on their own level of skill and maturity in their current role.  It is up to the manager to evaluate each person, where they stand, and provide the appropriate form of leadership needed to help the team member to achieve the next level of maturity.  This is often called the Hersey-Blanchard model.

I have led architecture, project, and/or development teams at Acadio, fine.com International, Sierra Systems Group, Microsoft IT, Infosys, and Big 3 Interactive.  

I learned the value of story telling in business when I was working at a large high-tech firm.  I needed to explain the basic concept of leading a team through levels of sophistication.  I leveraged the training I had received from a master storyteller, Martin Sykes, to tell the story of value we could add… all on a single sheet of paper.  That single “placemat” style of presentation traveled all the way up to the CEO, and earned me a promotion and my own team.  

It’s not enough to have a vision.  It’s not enough to be able to conceive of a future approach that is simpler, less expensive, and more flexible (even though this is difficult to do).  If you cannot tell the story, it won’t matter.  

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