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MSOD
Alumni Conference
October
24-27, 2002, Lake Tahoe, CA
From: Carol
Gausz-Mandelberg (Gamma Prime)
"CGM Blue Heron Associates"
Keynotes included
the CEO [Gary
Bloom, Chairman, President, and CEO - VERITAS Software ]
with
whom 2 MSOD alumni work and an outside speaker. I thought the CEO
presentation was particularly good.
He suggested OD needed to “help the company get the
stuff done” and described what he heard from the first meeting
with the head of OD when he became CEO versus what he needed to
hear (and soon realized they were capable of from experience with
them) as follows:
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Heard/Observed
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Needed
to Hear or See to be Positively Influenced
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Touchy feely
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Impact
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Religious view – we can save the world
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Investment in the company
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Labels and jargon
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End result
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He spoke of the “distraction factor” of
many CEOs (e.g. Wall Street scrutiny, need for more legal and
financial oversight given recent loss in corporate integrity,
etc.) and the need for OD to “help get stuff done”. He loves
people to take ownership of the CEO’s objectives and do what
needs to be done. He now sees that OD can do that in many areas:
help the organization move from chaos to organization, ensure
consistent organizational models and processes, align employees to
strategy, facilitate change and build competencies for success. He
encouraged perseverance, especially given the CEO distraction
factor.
Take
care and please keep in touch,
Carol
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