06 Aug, 2008
Editors’ Note
by Daryl Ogden 
Julie Androshick
This issue of Growth Edge provides a varied offering:
A preview of Kenning’s upcoming Consultative Problem Solving program in Princeton, NJ (October 7-10); a substantive excerpt from Barry Jentz and Joan Wofford’s business edition of Entry: How To Start a Leadership Position Successfully; an introduction to what Kenning founding partner Mark Ledden calls the “Kenning Quotient” (KQ), a measurement of what we at Kenning believe marks the important distinction between “Influencing” and “Collaborating” in the interpersonal domain – and creates the conditions for genuinely outstanding leadership.
Enjoy!
06 Aug, 2008
Kenning Problem Solving in Princeton – Faster, Better, Smarter
by Daryl Ogden
Following up on a highly successful pilot in Atlanta of a Consultative Problem Solving (CPS) program in January, Kenning Associates will once again offer CPS, this time bringing the program to Princeton’s Nassau Hall Hotel, from October 7-10.
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How to Begin a Leadership Position Successfully
by Barry Jentz 
and Joan Wofford 
The following excerpt, from Jentz and Wofford’s book published earlier this year, lays out the rationale and the power of their EntryPlan approach. Deployed with remarkable results by their leadership clients over a thirty year period, Jentz and Wofford have crystallized in their book a structured, rigorous methodology that vastly improves the odds that executives and managers will 1) create the conditions for long term success in their new leadership roles with 2) higher impact results than they ever would have conceived possible.
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What’s your KQ?
by Mark Ledden 
What could be better than getting people to do what you want, all the time? Nothing, if you believe that influence is the ultimate measure of leadership. We’re not so sure. “KQ” is our way of thinking about a leadership proficiency that moves beyond influence.
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