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Leadership

There is a profound difference between leadership and management.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) was a leader par excellence; in the face of varied egos, conflict, multiple personal and National agendas, he maintained a fixed course in achieving an objective.  Thoren Oakenshield, on the other hand, was a manager: his team of dwarves (and a one consulting hobbit) confronted and overcame issues in achieving a single objective. Ike used a combination of influence models to resolve conflict, creating a common vision while instilling shared responsibility. Thoren led his team with single-minded pursuit of his objective overcoming many obstacles combining his resources and their disparate skills into a single cohesive team.

In many respects, leaders may be thought of as strategic where managers might be considered more tactical. Managers spend their resources to achieve a goal where leaders may use their resources to help customers vision a future state, from which the goal is derived.

This session will focus on comparing leaders and managers, identifying the various attributes and tools effectively used by both.

About Our Presenter, Anthony Minstein, PMP, Six Sigma Master Black Belt                                                                                              

Anthony Minstein is the Delivery Director for Concord Consulting. He is responsible for overseeing project delivery across our Clients ensuring projects meet expectations on schedule, budget and performance.

Minstein has more than 35 years of experience managing and directing IT and commercial software delivery organizations. He has successfully led organizations through transformation from ad hoc chaotic to mature, process-oriented solutions delivery. Additionally, he has more than 25 years of experience in university education as an instructor in industrial engineering and business and management for California State University Dominguez Hills, University of San Francisco and University of California Berkeley – Extension.

Minstein’s IT career began in the aerospace industry as a systems engineer for Control Data Corporation building statistical process control systems. In the 1980s, he implemented the first local area networks in Los Angeles and strategically led organizations in the use of personal computing and distributed LAN systems for business processing. Minstein was also part of the team that introduced the Infinity automobile to the U.S. and served as the principal architect and designer of the nation’s first computer integrated automobile dealership.

In the 1990s, Minstein developed products for the healthcare industry and led quality assurance and usability engineering teams in commercial software companies. Minstein spent a number of years creating Project Management Offices for commerce B2B and B2C companies in San Francisco, California, and Louisville, Kentucky, and later moved on to become  the principal architect behind enterprise quality assurance for WellPoint and Anthem BC/BS.

Minstein is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and also holds certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), SCRUM Master (CSM) and in Lean Six Sigma (CMPE).

Minstein is a published author in quality improvement and continues to teach Business and Management at the University of California Berkeley.