{"44566":{"#nid":"44566","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IMPACT Speaker Series:  Bill George","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIMPACT Speaker Series\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGUEST LECTURER\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWilliam \u0022Bill\u0022 George\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAFFILIATION\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIMPACT Speaker Series\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nISyE Alumnus William \u0022Bill\u0022 George (IE 1964), professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School and former chair and CEO of Medtronic, Inc., will be guest lecturer for the IMPACT series on April 4, 2007. The IMPACT series takes place in the LeCraw Auditorium in the College of Management building at 4:30 p.m. The series is open to the public, and reservations are not required. For more information, visit the IMPACT Speaker Series page at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/fac_research\/centers_initiatives\/speaker.html\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/fac_research\/centers_initiatives\/speaker.html\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorge\u0027s new book, \u0022True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership\u0022, written with Peter Sims, is due to be released on March 15, 2007. The book includes life stories of 125 authentic leaders. \u0022True North\u0022 also discusses how to become an authentic leader by developing yourself and being true to your beliefs and your life story in the face of many challenges and eductions that all leaders face. Included in \u0022True North\u0022 are the moving experiences and wisdom of Starbucks\u0027 Howard Schultz, Andrea Jung of Avon Products, Dan Vasella of Novartis, GE\u0027s Jeff Immelt, Oprah Winfrey, Amgen\u0027s Kevin Sharer, Anne Mulcahy of Xerox, and many others. He has also included a series of exercises for readers, developed by George\u0027s leadership course at Harvard Business School, to help you discover your authentic leadership style. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0027www.truenorthleaders.org\u0027\u003Ewww.truenorthleaders.org\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDATE \u0026amp; TIME\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSaturday, April 07, 2007 -- 4:30 PM\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDURATION\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2 hours\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELOCATION\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLeCraw Auditorium, College of Management\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"ISyE Alumnus William \u0022Bill\u0022 George (IE 1964), professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School and former chair and CEO of Medtronic, Inc., will be guest lecturer for the IMPACT series on April 4, 2007.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IMPACT Speaker Series:  Bill George"}],"uid":"27216","created_gmt":"2009-10-12 21:22:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:48:27","author":"Ruth Gregory","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2007-04-07T17:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2007-04-07T19:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2007-04-07T19:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2007-04-07 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2007-04-07 23:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2007-04-07 23:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1614","name":"bill george"},{"id":"3532","name":"impact"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}