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14 October 2008
Company News
Integware Announces Partnership with Best-Selling Author Gus Lee; Gus Lee joins Integware as Chief Learning and Education Officer
Leadership consultant and best-selling author Gus Lee has joined Integware in the role of Chief Learning and Education Officer. He will enhance the company’s values-based culture and team with others in creating a sustaining Tier 3 firm. “We can think of corporate culture,” said Mr. Lee, “in three levels. A Tier 1 corporation is the modern coliseum of competing ambitions and departments fighting over resources; it’s Lord of the Flies on steroids. A Tier 2 is a short-term results-focused company, which is our garden-variety U.S. corporation. A Tier 3 company is uniquely centered on moral courage; it bears the birthmark of the Good to Great and Built to Last firms cited in the Collins and Porras longitudinal profitability studies. Integware has the intentionality and the character talent to be a Good to Great organization.”
Gus has worked with Integware since 2004 to improve teamwork, conflict resolution skills, and to define and develop Integware’s core values and operating principles. “Gus has helped me to grow both as a person and as a leader,” said Integware CEO, Chris Kay. “I attribute the coaching I received from Gus as transformative in my life and one of the keys to my success.”
About Gus Lee
Mr. Lee is a nationally-recognized ethicist, character-based leadership consultant, executive coach and author. He was mentored by H. Norman Schwarzkopf at West Point and by Edgar Bodenheimer, a Nuremberg prosecutor, at King Hall School of Law, UC Davis. He has been a COO, an EVP, a government senior executive, a U.S. Senate ethics investigator, an acting deputy attorney general, a senior deputy district attorney, JAG officer and paratrooper. He has written six best-selling books including Courage: The Backbone of Leadership, Honor and Duty, Tiger’s Tail, No Physical Evidence and Chasing Hepburn. Mr. Lee has consulted and spoken on integrity, courage, leadership, teamwork and conflict resolution to the National Conference of Supreme Court Justices, the Smithsonian Institution, California District Attorneys Association, Centura Hospitals, Corbis/Microsoft, Compassion International, Lockheed-Martin, Halliburton, the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Forum, the FBI, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss, Whirlpool, the U.S. Federal Academies Honor Conference, the Young Presidents Organization and many law enforcement and healthcare organizations. He is a thought leader for West Point, Development Dynamics International, the Praevius Group and the Kansas City Police Department’s Leadership Academy. He assisted Integware in its original core values adoption and development and now serves as a standards coach and content instructor for Integware’s development of a high-standards culture.
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