This book is written for the individual who leads the organization, whether as CEO, senior manager of a major operating function, department manager, or senior technical contributor. It is for those who are in a new organization, new role, new position, or want to refocus an existing role. For those not in these roles but aspiring to them, this book will give you tools, tips, and techniques to help you focus your career.Executive Focus: Your Life and Career is about. Keeping the organization momentum going in the right direction. Keeping the ship on course! Looking for danger. Making contingency plans! Bringing balance to your professional and personal life. Using your creative leadership energy to get where you want to go. With a combined 70 years experience as President, Executive Vice President, senior manager, and other leadership positions, authors Duffy and Moran provide you with the skills to anticipate and plan for changes in your personal or organizational career. You’ll learn how you align your career with your skills, education, experience, knowledge, and proficiency so they are all in the right place in your life. When this happens you have Executive Focus.
Over de auteur
Grace L. Duffy, MBA, CLSSMBB, provides services in organizational and process improvement, leadership, quality, customer service, and teamwork. She designs and implements effective systems for business and management success. Her clients include government, healthcare, public health, education, manufacturing, services, and not-for-profi t organizations. She is coauthor of The Quality Improvement Handbook, The Executive Guide to Improvement and Change, Executive Focus: Your Life and Career, and The Public Health Quality Improvement Handbook.
Grace holds a master’s degree in business administration from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in archaeology and anthropology from Brigham Young University. She is an ASQ certified manager of quality/organizational excellence, certified quality improvement associate, and certified quality auditor. Grace is a certified Lean-Six Sigma Master Black Belt and manager of process improvement. She is an ASQ fellow and past vice president of ASQ.
During her 20 years with IBM, Grace held a series of positions in technical design, services, management, and process improvement. She helped design and deliver IBM’s executive quality training in the late 1980s. Grace retired from IBM in 1993 as head of corporate technical education. Grace served with Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina, for 10 years as department head for business, curriculum owner, and instructor for Trident’s Quality and Corporate Management programs and as a dean for management and performance consulting to private industry. Grace is a member of ASTD, ISPI, and ASQ. Grace can be reached at [email protected].
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