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In this issue:

thoughts you should know… why we're "emerson" consulting group
thought leader university… your "Leadership Snapshot"
thought leader spotlights… kudos for recent victories!

thought leader university...

Take Your Leadership "Snapshot"

Thought leader Michael Shenkman, President of The Arch of Leadership (Albuquerque, New Mexico) and author of the forthcoming book The Arch and the Path: The Life of Leading Greatly, has spent countless hours observing, mentoring, guiding and transforming leaders at organizational leaders. "How organizations respond to leadership," he reports, "makes all the difference in terms of ultimate performance. Organizations with true leadership are exciting, fun, effective while those without leadership are boring, political, anxious, compromising and mediocre. It's that simple."

Certain aspects of an organization are particularly sensitive to the effect of leading, Michael has found. For that reason, he has developed the "Leadership Snapshot," a diagnostic tool for gauging your organization's leadership health. By taking a quick survey, you can illuminate aspects of your firm that are "ailing," enabling your leadership development efforts to be pointed in the right direction.

To learn more, click: http://www.archofleadership.com/resources/quizintro.htm

thoughts you should know...

Why we call ourselves "emerson" consulting group

Back in the 19th Century, here in Concord, Massachusetts, the great essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson went about his business of communicating great ideas in a variety of ways. Though best known as an author, Mr. Emerson actually made his living as a public speaker, trekking all over the United States by train for much of each year. For Waldo, public speaking as well as published writings served as two principal "thought leader vehicles" for getting his messages out.

But he didn't stop there. His networking activities were beyond compare, routinely exchanging letters and visits with such contemporary thought leader luminaries as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Margaret Fuller, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and oh so many more. The mission of emersongroup is to facilitate great and meaningful ideas of the present day. Emerson's approach long ago affords us an obvious and natural model (and symbol) to continue today.

To learn more about RWE's thought leader methodology, click here: http://www.thoughtleading.com/why_ecg.htm

thought leader spotlight...

Kudos to the following thought leaders whose articles recently appeared in print:

"Upping the Career Growth Ante with a Mentor's Help" by Elaine Crowley, Founder and President, The Crowley Group, in Mass High Tech, www.thecrowleygroup.com/

"Expanded Role of IP Audits in the Aftermath of Sarbanes-Oxley" by Liza Vertinsky, a member of the Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Transactions Practice Groups at Wolf Greenfield, a leading intellectual property law firm, in IP Newswire, www.WolfGreenfield.com

"Corporate Taxonomies" by Brant Cruz, Vice President and Team General Manager, Chadwick Martin Bailey, in Executive Excellence, www.ChadwickMartinBailey.com

"Don't Overlook Product Testing: It Can Lead to Failed Launch" by Ameeta Soni, Chair, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, in IndUS Business Journal, www.mitforumcambridge.org

"MIT Enterprise Forum Celebrates Its Silver Year," a profile of the Forum in Mass High Tech, www.mitforumcambridge.org

"25 Years of Guiding the Marriage of Tech and Business" by Trish Fleming, Executive Director, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, in Mass High Tech, www.mitforumcambridge.org

"Five Assumptions May Cost You Money" by John Covington, President, Chesapeake Consulting, in Executive Excellence. Email Susan Reavis, Incite Marketing at sreavis@incitemarketing.com

"The Five Things Effective Leaders Do" by Bill Schneider, President, Corporate Development Group, in M-World, www.cdg-corp.com

"IT Help Desk is Medicine Best Taken Before Business Pain Starts" by Vin D'Amico, Founding Principal, Damicon LLC, in IndUS Business Journal, www.damicon.com/resources/needhelpdesk.pdf

If you would like copies of any of these articles, email us or visit the author's website.

about emerson consulting group

emerson consulting group develops "thought leaders" by helping business experts publish articles and books, secure speaking engagements at conferences and companies, and develop research projects.

Learn how your firm can join the growing ranks of our successful thought leader clientele by calling 978-371-0442, replying to this message or visiting our website at www.thoughtleading.com. You can also reach us by post at box 41, concord, ma 01742.

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