Comments on: Growing Leaders http://www.ldscio.org/2008/07/13/growing-leaders/ Chief Information Officer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:33:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Damaris Fish http://www.ldscio.org/2008/07/13/growing-leaders/comment-page-1/#comment-2143 Damaris Fish Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:11 +0000 http://www.ldscio.org/?p=124#comment-2143 Seems to me leadership skills are a big missionary tool, too. Scouting has been a wonderful arena for LDSleadership to grow and shine. http://www.leadershipnow.com/ Seems to me leadership skills are a big missionary tool, too. Scouting has been a wonderful arena for LDSleadership to grow and shine. http://www.leadershipnow.com/

]]> By: queuno http://www.ldscio.org/2008/07/13/growing-leaders/comment-page-1/#comment-2079 queuno Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:13:43 +0000 http://www.ldscio.org/?p=124#comment-2079 How much effort is spent attempting to infuse business/leadership types with technical skills? <em>[Joel: Recently I gave a presentation to folks at the Church on social networking and how it's changing everything. The intent wasn't to teach technical skills, but to increase familiarity with technologies and they could be applied. We should do this a lot. Teaching technical skills to business folks, however, isn't a productive use of time, imo.]</em> How much effort is spent attempting to infuse business/leadership types with technical skills?

[Joel: Recently I gave a presentation to folks at the Church on social networking and how it's changing everything. The intent wasn't to teach technical skills, but to increase familiarity with technologies and they could be applied. We should do this a lot. Teaching technical skills to business folks, however, isn't a productive use of time, imo.]

]]> By: Alan Rencher http://www.ldscio.org/2008/07/13/growing-leaders/comment-page-1/#comment-2072 Alan Rencher Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:05:23 +0000 http://www.ldscio.org/?p=124#comment-2072 As a former ICS employee I can say with strong evidence that some of the best leaders in the IT industry are in ICS as well as some of the worst. There does not seem to be any middle ground. I loved my experiences working in ICS but I encountered the absolute best and worst leadership in my career within ICS. I hope that this effort to grow leadership internally is successful. As a former ICS employee I can say with strong evidence that some of the best leaders in the IT industry are in ICS as well as some of the worst. There does not seem to be any middle ground. I loved my experiences working in ICS but I encountered the absolute best and worst leadership in my career within ICS. I hope that this effort to grow leadership internally is successful.

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