Action In Management Set for Boston Kick-Off; Renowned Curricula Offers Senior Executives MBA Alternative.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2002 Action in Management, a unique, senior executive development program, announced today that it would welcome an entering class of corporate, academic, and cultural leaders at its opening weekend conference, beginning Friday, May 17th at Le Meridien Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New . A similar program takes place in the San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay from May 3rd through 5th. Action in Management is a practice-based program designed to fill the gaps in the foundations of traditional management understanding. Participants take two to three years to complete the program. Seen by some as "a private MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration ," AIM leverages and strengthens the skills senior executives already have, and provides a foundation for elevating their own and their team's performance to new levels. Bringing together themes from some of the great thinkers of our time, this program goes beyond traditional management learning to focus on what program leader Robert Dunham calls, "the leadership of connection." "Traditional MBA programs expose people to the functional skills, such as finance, marketing, and strategy," said Dunham. " But what is missing is a more fundamental perspective on how people interact, create action and the future, since everything in business and organizational life flows from the interactions of people." The approach has been developed and refined in dozens of companies and with hundreds of managers over the last twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. . Current participants include CEO's, COO's, managing directors, business founders, entrepreneurs, managers, and entire management teams. Graduates of the program report significant improvements in the impact on their organizations, as well as increases in their responsibility and income.. About Robert Dunham Robert Dunham founded Enterprise Design in 1993, an executive and management development company specializing in developing crucial skills that are not addressed in MBA programs and mainstream management development approaches. Inspired by the challenges he faced as Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for a technology company, and as a vice president in Motorola Computer Systems and several other companies, Robert has developed a discipline of leadership and management based on action-generating communication skills, embodied learning, effective `hands-on' management practices and individual coaching that enable clients to increase organizational performance Organizational performance comprises the actual output or results of an organization as measured against its intended outputs (or goals and objectives). Specialists in many fields are concerned with organizational performance including strategic planners, operations, and produce more meaningful and satisfying careers. He is the designer and leader of the nation-wide executive and management development programs Action In Management (AIM) (see www.enterprise-design.com) and The Company of Leaders, as well as the life design program Coming To Life. He holds two degrees from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , and draws extensively from the work of Dr. Richard Heckler heck·le tr.v. heck·led, heck·ling, heck·les 1. To try to embarrass and annoy (someone speaking or performing in public) by questions, gibes, or objections; badger. 2. To comb (flax or hemp) with a hatchel. in embodied learning and leadership, from the work of Dr. Fernando Flores Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born January 9, 1943) is a Chilean engineer, philosopher, entrepreneur and politician. He is a former cabinet minister of president Salvador Allende and is currently senator for the Tarapacá Region. Biography Flores was born in Talca, Chile. in the field of Ontological Design, and from other leading thinkers that illuminate how people communicate, coordinate action, learn, and author the future. |
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