Risk & Business Magazine Gifford Associates Fall 2017 | Page 12

BE LIKE YOUR HEROES
Be A Better
Leader
BE MORE LIKE YOUR HEROES!
R
ecently I was at a workshop
with my good friend designer
Ayse Birsel. Ayse has created
a program that helps leaders
Design the Life You Love.
During the program, Ayse asked us (the
participants) to list our heroes.
• Peter Drucker, Father of Modern
Management
• Bob Tannenbaum, UCLA Professor
• • Alan Mulally – extremely generous,
great teacher
Warren Bennis, Renowned
Leadership Expert • Paul Hersey – extremely generous,
great teacher
• Richard Beckhard, World Leading
Organizational Development
Consultant • Peter Drucker – extremely generous,
great teacher
• • Buddha Bob Tannenbaum – extremely
generous, great teacher
• Warren Bennis — extremely
generous, great teacher
• Richard Beckhard — extremely
generous, great teacher
I made my list. Here are some of the
people who were on my list.
• Frances Hesselbein, Former Girl
Scout CEO
• Alan Mulally, Former Ford CEO
• Paul Hersey, Co-creator of
Situational Leadership®
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generous, great teacher
Then, Ayse asked us to put down next to
each person’s name, what we found so
heroic about them. I did that and this is
what it looked like.
•
Frances Hesselbein – extremely