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Genevieve Albers Forum
Seattle
University's Albers School of Business and
Economics is pleased to continue the Genevieve
Albers Forum (formally known as the Albers
Business Forum) as part of its community service
efforts to further the partnership of progress
between business and education. Made possible
through the foresight and generosity of the late
Miss Genevieve Albers, daughter of George and
Eva Albers, for whom the school is named, the
Genevieve Albers Forum is designed to bring
renowned business leaders and other public
figures to campus for discussion of important
business topics.
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Genevieve Albers Forum
presents
Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic,
author of True North and Authentic
Leadership, Harvard Business
School
Monday, April 30, 2007
Pigott Auditorium (7:00 to 8:00 PM)
What will leadership look like for the 21st
century? According to Bill George and Peter Sims in
TRUE NORTH: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (Jossey-Bass/Wiley,
March 2006) people today are too well-informed to
blindly follow a leader. Instead, the labor force
wants to find personal satisfaction through work and
be inspired by a greater purpose.
Based on research and first-person interviews
with 125 of the top business leaders in the
country, this book shows that leadership is
available to all of us. True leaders inspire and
liberate other potential leaders to step up to
their responsibilities. This book is filled with
first person stories from such people as Warren
Bennis, Charles Schwab, John Whitehead
(Cochairman, Goldman Sachs), Ann Moore (Chairman
and CEO, Time, Inc.) and Anne Mulcahy (Chairman
and CEO, Xerox), to name a few. The stories show
in often moving detail how personal development
through difficult circumstances helps people
find their true north and become authentic
leaders.
“True North is an awe-inspiring gift to the
world. The 125 men and women whose leadership
journeys are so beautifully rendered in this
book show us that we can have enormous impact
without compromising our values—indeed, that we
are more successful when we stay true to our
ideals. Every aspiring leader (or leader who
aspires to become even better) will draw
strength and wisdom from this wonderful book.”
--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business
School professor and best-selling author of
Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing
Streaks Begin and End
“If you want to move your leadership in the
right direction, read TRUE NORTH. Drawing on the
personal stories of some of the world’s most
effective leaders, the book shows that you
become a successful leader when you stay on
course with your highest self.”
--Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One
Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level
Excerpt reprinted in Fortune Magazine
Book Review - New York Times
Carly Fiorina, Author and former
President, CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Monday, October 23, 2006
"Tough
Choices: A Memoir"
Whats it like to be the most powerful businesswomen
in America? What type of sacrifices does your family
have to endure? How do you bounce back from one of
the most public firings by a board of directors
ever? Carly Fiorina answers these questions and
shares her amazing life story in her
much-anticipated memoir,
TOUGH CHOICES.
On Monday, October 23, 2006,
Seattle Universitys Albers School of Business and
Economics begins its Genevieve Albers Forum by
hosting former president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard,
Carly Fiorina. In an on stage interview by Connie
Wong, President of Hutchison Whampoa Americas,
Fiorina will discuss the lessons she learned during
her tenure at HP and throughout her meteoric ascent
to the top, her very public firing, the current
state of affairs at HP, and the controversy
surrounding their crumbling leadership and the
criminal charges. She will also share her unique
perspective on leadership, technology,
globalization, sexism, and the tough choices shes
made along the way.
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