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The Center for Business Excellence (CBE) is an organization devoted to transforming the relationship between business and the community, by recognizing and supporting the practices and principles of business excellence through analysis, education, and effective demonstration. These principles are currently embodied for many people in the ideas of sustainable development, social responsibility, spirit in the workplace, and the triple bottom line (people, profits, and the planet).
The Center brings together senior business, government, educational and community leaders to address these issues in a way that is practical, timely, and designed to produce effective change; it offers them a platform for communicating values, objectives, strategies, and initiatives and gaining the support of the community in fostering greater awareness, confidence, and support for business. It works to serve the community by ensuring that our businesses are the best they can be.
Based in Central New Jersey, the Center also promotes strategic initiatives that create visibility, transparency, and sustainable economic growth, both locally and in the wider regional economy. The Center for Business Excellence was founded to sustain a dialog in New Jersey that engages business and civic leaders to advance community and public interests while benefiting business success. The Center believes in and stands for the essential role that business plays in shaping our society for the benefit of all citizens, and seeks to bring together change leaders to support true win-win initiatives that go beyond philanthropy to align the interests of businesses and the community for mutual benefit.
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Upcoming Events |
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Beyond
Philanthropy Committee Meeting, Tuesday, October 12, 4-6 p.m. |
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Central
Jersey Regional Equity Summit, October 28, 2004 |
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Breakfasts
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Recent Events |
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June 29, 2004,
Central Jersey Business Improvement Group |
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June 28, 2004,
Central Jersey Regional Equity Summit |
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June 7-9, 2004,
Quantum Leadership Seminar |
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Tues, Feb 24,
2004: John Sarno on WorldCom |
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Thurs, Mar 4,
2004: Judith Anderson on Corporate Nirvana |
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Spirit
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"Americans need no less than a new paradigm for leadership in their society. I don't know precisely what this paradigm should be, but I know that the roles of business, government, and nongovernmental organizations must move in the direction of closer partnership."
-- Jeffrey E. Garten, The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda for Business Leaders
"The
greatest myth of the last decade is that CEOs who run their to maximize
shareholder value actually serve their investors well. In truth, by
running their businesses by the numbers in order to get the stock price
up, and thus attempting to please their shareholders in the near term,
these leaders are putting their companies on course to long-term
decline or even eventual destruction. Business's best-kept secret is
that mission-driven companies accrue far more shareholder value than do
financially driven firms."
-- Bill George (former CEO of Medtronics), "The Company's Mission
is the Message," Strategy+Business Magazine No. 33 (Winter 2003)
"The
quality of life in organizations is deteriorating. People don't have a
sense that their work has meaning. Cynicism reigns. People don't want
to live and work in this way and organizations don't function optimally
when they do.
As we transition from the Age of Information to the Age of Ideation,
leadership will need to attend to our source of enthusiasm and
inspiration -- our soul. The Age of Information focuses on knowledge
and technology. The Age of Ideation will focus on people, culture, and
generating new sources of gain. Leadership style that suited the
information age will not work for the Ideation Age. A new style of
leadership is required, one that makes collaboration, empowerment, and
innovation possible."
--Richard Bellingham, The Manager's Pocket Guide to Spiritual
Leadership
"First,
we need a full and equal partnership between women and men in all
spheres of life. Second, we need a clear vision of human possibilities.
Third, we need empirical knowledge of how social and economic systems
maintain themselves and how they change. Fourth, we need an
understanding of leverage points for transformation -- critical
intervention points with a cascade of systemic effects. Fifth, we need
the spiritual courage to take initiative -- personally,
organizationally, and globally -- and to follow through even in the
face of strong resistance."
-- Riane Eisler, "Spiritual Courage: Reinventing Ourselves
Personally, Organizationally, and Globally"
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ethics
leadership
the long view
paradigms
learning organization
continuous improvement
innovation
managing change
resilience
peer support
emotional intelligence
dignity and respect for all stakeholders
finding common ground
diversity
systems thinking
civic engagement
caring, compassion, opportunity, making a difference
self-generating, fluid, adapting net-work community of communication,
learning
shared meaning, purpose and action
peace, justice, freedom
vocational dating
conscious evolution
triple bottom line
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conducting
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harmonizing
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clarifying
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self-actualization
customer value
"We
ask you to consider this critical shift in thinking - the shift to
seeing the company itself as the ultimate creation... It means spending
less of your time thinking about specific product lines and market
strategies, and spending more of your time thinking about
organizational design... "We
don't mean to imply the visionary companies never had superb products
or good ideas. They certainly did, and... most of them view their
products and services as making useful and important contributions to
customers' lives. Indeed, these companies don't exist just to 'be a
company;' they exist to do something useful. But we suggest that the
continual stream of great products and services from highly visionary
companies stems from their being outstanding organizations, not the
other way around. Keep in mind that all products, services, and great
ideas, no matter how visionary, eventually become obsolete. But a
visionary company does not necessarily become obsolete, not if it has
the organizational ability to continually change and evolve beyond
existing product life cycles." "Great
leaders do not want to have followers, they want to spawn more leaders." "The
CBE can be seen as paving a developmental path of the next stage of
evolution that is actually encoded in each of us, and unfolds when we
are in a resonant field that reinforces our "memory of the future"
(Barbara Hubbard). The CBE links participants to key evolutionary
teachers, peers, leaders, intitiaves, and ideas that are guiding us
forward. Through our subjective input we begin to feel our collective
field, and sense that we are not alone. Each participant is a center of
universal creativity with a unique perspective and set of gifts. Each
person places their subjective experience and insights into the
"field." Each of us is being activated as individuals through our
participation in the whole system. Each of us is emerging to our next
developmental stage. The CBE offers a field for conscious cocreation." "One
of the challenges facing innovators and change agents in any area is
simply that of being heard. The mass media creates the illusion of a
multiplicity of coherent ideas, while frequently creating nothing more
than a cacophony of competing marketing messages. Such messages,
however beguiling, cannot produce genuine transformation. "Human
beings need to speak and to listen to each other individually and in
small groups, to dialogue and to engage with ideas, to absorb and to
appropriate not only the content of each message but also its real
context, its emotional weight, its personal and social significance.
And they then need to be able to build on these ideas with practical
and concerted action." "Business has
become, in this last half century, the most powerful institution on the
planet. The dominant institution in any society needs to take
responsibility for the whole -- as the church did in the days of the
Holy Roman Empire. But business has not had such a tradition. This is a
new role, not yet well understood or accepted. "Built into the
concept of capitalism and free enterprise from the beginning was the
assumption that the actions of many units of individual enterprise,
responding to market forces and guided by the 'invisible hand' of Adam
Smith, would somehow add up to desirable outcomes. But in the last
decade of the twentieth century, It has become clear that the
'invisible hand' is faltering. It depended upon a consensus of
overarching meanings and values that is no longer present. So business
has to adopt a tradition it has never had throughout the entire history
of capitalism: to share responsibility for the whole. Every decision
that is made, every action that is taken, must be viewed in the light
of that kind of responsibility. And that, to me, is
what the World Business
Academy is really about. It
is not just another association of business people to exchange
information and foster collegiality. It is about investing ourselves in
a task of historic proportions. Some will be called to this task and
many will not. Those who are will find it to be extremely gratifying
and fulfilling." "I believe that CBE
is, in part, about creating and modeling a New Paradigm of meaning for
business excellence. When we plumb and peel the
corporate/organization/business onion to its essence, what is it all
really about? What does it mean to be fully human in work and in the
world? " "The goal is to
create new-paradigm ways of doing business that positively impact the
conscious evolution of society and the world leading to health,
prosperity and sustainability for all." "To massively
develop means and act in accordance with what those means permit
without careful consideration of ends in the context of values is ...
idiotic. ... The birth of the Chaordic Age calls into question
virtually every concept of societal organization, management, and
conduct on which we have come to rely."
-- Charles, Prince of Wales
--James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, BUILT TO LAST: Successful
Habits of Visionary Companies
-- Gay Hendricks & Kate Ludeman, The Corporate Mystic: A
Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground
-- Ron Bell, Spirit in Business and Work
-- Jonathan Cloud, Introduction to Breakfasts with Champions
--Dr. Willis Harman (1918-1997), World Business Academy Cofounder and
Fellow
--Ron Bell, Bell Consulting
--Victoria Zelin
--Dee Hock, founder of Visa
For more information, please contact:
8 Revere Drive, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
908-581-8418 info@cbe-nj.org
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