by Dudley Slater | Jan 29, 2020 | fusion leadership
“From that point on, the power of name recognition has resonated with me,” Jeff Pinneo said, recalling a profound moment in his early career. Pinneo was a flight attendant, welcoming passengers onboard a Continental Airlines flight to Houston when a Continental vice...
by Dudley Slater | Dec 18, 2019 | fusion leadership
On-boarding to Make a Difference My great friend and fellow Integra Telecom leader Jim Huesgen, who served as our president for many years, came up with a brilliant exercise that we used regularly. This occurred during a period of steady growth for the company, when...
by Dudley Slater | Nov 27, 2019 | fusion leadership
Thanksgiving is uniquely American. Sadly most Americans (those 66% that the Gallup organization reports dread Monday morning) view Thanksgiving both as an opportunity to escape the drudgery of their work as well as an opportunity to be with family. Like most, I feel...
by Dudley Slater | Nov 20, 2019 | fusion leadership
We were “under pressure from … the president (of the United States).” General Van Antwerp emphasized the national urgency toward the re-building New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. However, “first we had to do a lot of restoring of the public trust.” In order to...
by Dudley Slater | Nov 6, 2019 | fusion leadership
Millennials (as the largest generation in today’s workforce) are powerful, and they are hungry! You’re organization and your career as a leader (or prospective leader) literally depends on your ability to satisfy this hunger. So what’s the cause of the insatiable...
by Dudley Slater | Oct 16, 2019 | fusion leadership
Get local, interacting with front line workers and find gold to fuse your team together? During our early years with Integra Telecom, when we first began to shoulder our way into the über-competitive communications market, the giants of the industry—like Verizon and...
