To liven up, and, essential, wake up, a soporific convention crowd takes a dynamic presentation with plenty of light touches. Tidi Products Inc. Delivered at World Dental Trade Conference, Chicago. Harnessing The Winds of Change Good morning. It's always great to see so many familiar faces and old friends at this convention. To me, such conventions are important if only to demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
Conventions are important in other ways, too.
That title came from the 1893 Chicago World Exposition. I mention the windy city because we're talking today about transformational leadership which, to me, essentially means harnessing the winds of change. Leadership, in fact, means the act of initiating change. If you're not transforming your organization, you're not a leader. You're an administrator, a caretaker.