fatal illusions: shredding a dozen unrealities that can keep your organization from success
You hear it all the time. “The main thing we need is more information / resources / training / experience / innovation / teamwork.” Nonsense. The main thing we need is truth. And yet all organizations are to one degree or another reality impaired – some fatally. Organizations can spend an unbelievable amount of time and energy attempting to treat symptoms, because facing the core issues or truth is hard. Our pride, our self-images, and our dreams are all affected when we know we need to stop painting a rotting wall. The goal is to face and embrace reality so that we can build something of great value, something that really satisfies, something that brings us lasting success.
Presenting on his groundbreaking book, Fatal Illusions, Jim Lucas will establish the critical need for leaders and organizations to face, define, and align with or change reality while revealing the major illusions that have the significant power to harm you and your organization.
Take the Reality IQ™ Check Up developed by James Lucas
Our industry will gain important data from your involvement in this ground-breaking survey developed by James Lucas.Your assessment results will be used to reveal industry-specific illusions and suggest customized solutions at the ECPA reThink conference session, Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities that Can Keep Your Organization from Success.
Click on this Reality IQ™ link to take this survey. Go with your “first gut” answer, allowing 10-15 minutes to complete the evaluation. Your participation will help Christian publishing achieve its mission more effectively. For more information about the Fatal Illusions that can affect your company, read James Lucas’ feature article in ECPA’s member newsletter, E-Link.
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You hear it all the time. “The main thing we need is more information / resources / training / experience / innovation / teamwork.” Nonsense. The main thing we need is truth. And yet all organizations are to one degree or another reality impaired – some fatally. Organizations can spend an unbelievable amount of time and energy attempting to treat symptoms, because facing the core issues or truth is hard. Our pride, our self-images, and our dreams are all affected when we know we need to stop painting a rotting wall. The goal is to face and embrace reality so that we can build something of great value, something that really satisfies, something that brings us lasting success.
Presenting on his groundbreaking book, Fatal Illusions, Jim Lucas will establish the critical need for leaders and organizations to face, define, and align with or change reality while revealing the major illusions that have the significant power to harm you and your organization.
Take the Reality IQ™ Check Up developed by James Lucas
Our industry will gain important data from your involvement in this ground-breaking survey developed by James Lucas.Your assessment results will be used to reveal industry-specific illusions and suggest customized solutions at the ECPA reThink conference session, Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities that Can Keep Your Organization from Success.
Click on this Reality IQ™ link to take this survey. Go with your “first gut” answer, allowing 10-15 minutes to complete the evaluation. Your participation will help Christian publishing achieve its mission more effectively. For more information about the Fatal Illusions that can affect your company, read James Lucas’ feature article in ECPA’s member newsletter, E-Link.
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james.lucasJim is President and CEO of Luman Consultants International, Inc., an organization which he founded in 1983. This consultancy is dedicated to developing passionate, thinking, high-performance leaders, people, teams, and organizations. Recent clients are from areas as diverse as oil and gas, chemicals, forest and paper products, computer hardware, diversified manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer products, diversified business services, financial services, accounting, construction, state government, and federal government. They range from Fortune 1000 public companies and private for-profit organizations to not-for-profits and government agencies.
Jim is the author of four landmark books on leadership and organizational development with another to be released in 2007:
• Broaden the Vision and Narrow the Focus: Managing in a World of Paradox
• The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment
• Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization from Success • Balance of Power: Fueling Employee Power without Relinquishing Your Own
• High-Performance Ethics –scheduled for publication in Spring 2007. It will discuss the largely unexplored connection between ethics and performance and how they can reinforce each other. Mr. Steve Forbes has written the powerful foreword and Mr. Zig Ziglar has written the inspiring afterword.
“You can take what [Jim] says to the bank – both figuratively and literally”
Steve Forbes, President & CEO, Forbes Inc., and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Magazine
”Lucas has given us the management manual for the millennium."
John G. Hughes, Jr., President, Creative Leadership Strategies
"A real gut check. Stimulating and informative . . . a road map for attacking the 'enemy within.’”
Terry L. Lay, President, The Lee Company (a division of VF Corporation)
”I haven't seen anything else that gives such a clear picture of [how to achieve] key organizational goals."
Ed Oakley, CEO, Enlightened Leadership International, Author of Enlightened Leadership
“… a terrific diagnostic tool for anyone who wants to be a truth-seeker and truth-doer.”
Christian Management Report