Richard S. Webster Ph.D.

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Leadership Development

Background in leadership development (Education and/or Experience):

Learning from "Current leadership development work" plus teaching and administrative positions in higher education, 1960, ff.

Current leadership development work (Roles and/or Positions):

"Hitt Models and Assessments Project (Hitt MAP, HMA Project): Co-project Director (2008) Principal and Co-founder, PRM Institute (1978)

What do you hope to gain from and contribute to the learning community:

Propose "excellence" as overarching goal, making this working actionable, and putting it to work: "Excellence = Learning leadership + constructive change + making improvements + getting better + measuring progress + repeating cycle."

Personal areas of interest or expertise:

• Business leadership
• Collaboration
• Community specific leadership development
• Evaluation
• Organizational Leadership
• Program Delivery
• Shared leadership

Other:

• constructive change +
• Excellence =
• getting better +
• Learning leadership +
• making improvements +
• measuring progress +
• repeat cycle.

More About You

Other Interests:

• Every Day.
• Excellence
• Making excellence actionable
• MEOWED:
• Our
• providing overarching goal
• using assessment throughout
• Work

Current Questions about Leadership & Leadership Development:

1. How to make above working definition of excellence a central value and activity for all learning and other leaders? 2. How to find "best" source of support for comprehensive assessment process to add "formative assessment" to current leadership and other pursuit of excellence (POE) activities.

Favorite Quotes:

"What gets measured gets done" (Mason Haire, Professor Emeritus, Organizational Psychology, MIT). "In God we trust, all others bring data" (W. Edwards Deming, 1900-1993, quality improvement thought leader). "Higher batting averages are better than lower ones" (attributed to Yogi Berra, "sage of the basepaths"). [MANY useful quotes about "excellence:" Pleased to add if anyone is interested.