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Combining
Corporate Governance
with Internal Leadership
To Revolutionize Your Competitive Edge™
by Jim Villwock and Dwayne E. Jorgensen
www.JobDoctorsInternational.com
What is Corporate Governance?
Corporate governance refers to how everyone ranging
from the board of directors to management, sharehold-
ers, suppliers, customers, and employees is monitored
so that all stakeholder interests, including regulatory
and society’s interests are effectively protected.
The five key components of governance include:
1) Risk Education and Assessment, 2) Internal Con-
trols Design based on Identification of Key Risks, 3)
Identification of Existing Controls in Policies as well as
Implementation of New Controls, 4) “Truthful Knowl-
edge” through operating, monitoring, and reporting,
and 5) Sustainability through Proactive periodic re-
views of the Key Risks and Remedial Actions.
Why is Corporate Governance
Necessary?
Whether from ignorance or intent, company stakehold-
ers do not always align and follow the best interests
of the company, shareholders, and society. Another
way of stating it is that humans have a range of aware-
ness, understanding, and competence and a range of
self-centeredness, criminal intent, and honesty.
Even in the honest pursuit of revenue and profit, a
natural tension exists between Business Risk ver-
sus Business Opportunity.
For example, in the pursuit of sales, a salesperson
may commit to pricing, legal terms, or commitments
that may exceed his or her authority and violate the
internal controls of the company. The reason for those
controls might be to protect profitability, legal liability,
or contingent liabilities which could have a major im-
pact on the company. These controls can be viewed
negatively as “sales prevention” or as a positive pro-
cess to insure the right level of management reviews
and concurs with the sales person, offers alternative
suggestions, or declines the deal.
Another example might be moving operations over-
seas to a lower cost of labor location for short term
profit improvements while potentially losing intellectu-
al capital and a long-term strategic advantage. Gov-
ernance reviews the risks and monitors the controls
to balance risk and opportunity, and ensures that
Truthful Knowledge is effectively communicated to all
relevant parties.
Governance provides the systems, principles, and
processes to inform and create the environment re-
quired to comply with legal, business, regulatory, and
fiduciary requirements by directing and controlling
members in the company in a way that allows the
company to fulfill its goals and objectives while bene-
fiting all stakeholders in the long term.
Ongoing reviews of relevant guidelines with employ-
ees should also become part of the training process
to increase employee awareness and competence.
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Who is Responsible for
Corporate Governance?
Ultimately, the most senior leaders of the organiza-
tion are responsible. This is the only way that a true
“Tone at the Top” can be set. Company Boards and
Senior Executive Management also have the primary
responsibility. Employee compliance is required. In-
ternal auditors validate compliance. External auditors
provide an independent external verification primarily
for the financial areas.
In smaller companies, the CEO and the CFO are typ-
ically the primary drivers for governance.
In large companies, the CEO and CFO are operation-
ally responsible. In addition, there is typically an Audit
Committee representing the Board of Directors and
an internal audit function to oversee the companies
compliance with Governance, external auditors to
provide an independent assessment, and a delegat-
ed sharing of responsibility to all management levels.
What is the Risk /
Reward of Governance?
Risk Reward
Strategic Investor Confidence
Regulatory Public Confidence
Financial Employee Confidence
Operational Regulatory Confidence
Legal Cost Avoidance
Depending upon the situation, severity, and type of vio-
lation, the risk can be internal and external to the compa-
ny. Strategic risks can exist in every department and with
any employee, not just at the Board or Executive levels.
Regulatory risks are often changing rapidly and create
a constant challenge. Financial risks range from theft to
major liquidity or capital exposures that can destroy the
company. Operational risks range from a manufacturing
plant floor shutting down to a loss of intellectual property
and confidential data. Legal risks, intended or unintend-
ed, may range from personal fines to jail time.
On the other hand, when the competition is in the
news with a major issue, due to a lack of an effective
risk management program, the core of governance,
the time and effort for effective governance pays off in
confidence and cost avoidance. When compared to a
less prepared competitor, governance can become a
competitive advantage.
You would think companies would have a tight control
on corporate governance. However, due to the rush
and pressure of daily activities, sometimes surprisingly
little attention is given to governance other than ensur-
ing the entity’s business processes are in place and
complies with minimum requirements. Why? Often the
consequences are assumed to be an acceptable cost
of doing business or assumed to be manageable with-
out knowing the costs. As long as the company that
blows up is some other company, life goes on with the
assumption that “it won’t happen here.”
British Petroleum allegedly had employees who did
not follow standard procedures on an oil platform in
the Gulf of Mexico resulting in an oil spill that was in
the headlines for over a year, cost the CEO his job,
and resulted in fines and legal exposures starting at
$20 billion. Enron is a famous example costing the
company and its shareholders billions of dollars with
the CEO currently still in jail.
Everyone reading this paper can probably share a
story about their company or a competitor who’s gov-
ernance failures resulted in lost revenue, profit, or
competitive positioning.
What are typical Risk Areas?
Assets at Risk Systems
Cash & Investments Information Quality
Inventory Security
Intellectual Property Disaster Planning
Equipment and Software
Operations Financial
Procurement Data Accuracy
Production Available Information
Material Handling Completeness of Data
Sales Accounts Receivables
Services Accounts Payable
Human Resources Banking
Planning Cash Flow
Legal Capital Availability
Environmental...
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As you can see, this is not just a CEO or CFO chal-
lenge. Every person in every department has risk and
opportunity. While governance focuses on controlling
and mitigating identified key risks, when we discuss
Internal Leadership, we will show how to further re-
duce risk and increase opportunity through compan-
ywide business alignment, engagement, and motiva-
tion focused on growing the business revenue, profit,
and competitive edge.
What are Examples of Risk?
Functional Conversion Strategic
Business Processes Finance
Alignment Collateral Authority Capital Availability
Compliance Counterparty Bench Strength Competition
Contracting Credit Budgeting and Planning Financial Markets
Empowerment Currency Capacity Flexibility
Environment Derivatives Communication Industry
Fraud Interest Rates Cycle Time Leadership
Health and Safety Liquidity Efficiency Legal
Illegal Activities Reinvestment Human Resources Regulatory
Management Info. Settlement Organization Structures Product Life Cycle
Obsolescence/
Shrinkage Theft
Performance Metrics Reputation
Relevance Pricing Trademark Erosion
Unauthorized Use Resource Allocation Intellectual PropTheft
Suppliers Sovereign
Technology Selection Strategic Assumptions
Technology Deployment Valuation
Technology Reporting
Availability Financial Assessment
Access Evaluation
Functionality Financial Statements
Integrity Falsification
Penetration Regulatory Reporting
Usability Taxation
Most of these examples go far beyond theft or neg-
ligence. While the list may seem overwhelming, it is
not exhaustive. If some of these items surprise you,
think how much further they are out of the mindshare
of non-managers who are never even shown this list
or taught about governance.
For more information on corporate governance, we
recommend our white papers entitled:
•	 Corporate Governance Post Sarbanes-Oxley
•	 Tip of the Compliance Iceberg
You can find these white papers at
www.JobDoctorsInternational.com/governance.
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How is Governance Typically
Viewed In Motivation Theory?
Governance goes much further than dealing with em-
ployees. However, employees do have a major im-
pact on governance. Therefore, let’s talk about the
key stakeholders in governance who are working in
the company...leadership and employees.
In our opinion, governance can be viewed positively
as helping to protect the company, employees, and
all interested parties. It can also be used to improve
company competitiveness by helping guide and align
employees, lower risks, and help the company brand.
However, in practice, many companies use govern-
ance as a Theory X process to provide the compre-
hensive systems of controls for employee supervision.
Theory X assumes employees have to be closely
watched in a hierarchical structure with increasingly
narrow spans of control and influence at each level.
This can sometimes lead to compliance mindsets that
are risk, change, innovation, and adaptability adverse.
Under Theory Y, the assumption and expectation is that
employees will be self-motivated to become engaged,
energetic, innovative, and aligned with the company
for personal career success by adding value that sup-
ports company success. These attributes embrace risk,
change, and competitive challenges. However, absent
corporate governance, this enthusiasm for personal
success may or may not be in alignment with the best
interests of the company. Or worse, may result in inten-
tional or unintentional damage ranging from fraud, dis-
ruptive internal politics, or other harm to the company.
Therefore, we are offering a governance program
within Job Doctors International™ alongside a new
way of looking at how companies can increase their
competitive edge through a parallel process that
we call Internal Leadership. By combining both pro-
grams, we believe a company can revolutionize their
competitive edge by maximizing business opportunity
while minimizing business risk.
So, what is Internal Leadership? Let’s begin with de-
fining External Leadership. Since we have already
discussed governance, we will be focusing on driving
revenue, profit, and a competitive advantage.
External Leadership
Every company, whether large or small, survives and
thrives by driving more sales and profit. Simple, isn’t
it? Well, perhaps it is not so simple.
Most companies focus on product development, mar-
keting, and sales. If there is no product, there is no rea-
son to go to market. If the market is not aware of their
product or if the company has a bad reputation, there
are no sales. If there are no sales, there is no company.
Therefore, product development must be outward
focused on what the client needs and wants to buy.
Marketing must be outward focused on developing cli-
ent awareness, branding, understanding of your val-
ue proposition, and lead generation. Sales must be
outward focused on closing the deal, delivering the
solution, getting paid, and repeating the process.
Most executives focus on this area because it is the
core of what their business is! This is what I call The
Business. Everything else is designed to support the
business…and that is where the problem begins.
While senior executives are focusing externally on
The Business, who is focusing on aligning everyone
together to do the business? Who is strategically en-
gaging everyone in the organization from the lowest
level to the highest level to help you not only grow the
business but to fulfill the vision that you have for the
company? Who is providing the Internal Leadership
while you are focusing on External Leadership?
In most cases…few to none.
60% of Company Failures
are due to People Problems
(Source: VC Industry)
Many companies have good people but how many of
your people know your business? If they don’t know
your business, how can they help you grow your busi-
ness? How many of your people are truly strategic
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Development
Marketing Sales
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(1-5 year focus on growing the business)? How many
can connect the dots between your business and
what they should be doing to provide innovation, best
practices, employee alignment, and motivated em-
ployee engagement?
Even if you have several people to strategically help
and who can also tactically implement, do they repre-
sent the whole company or just their silo?
We are not pointing fingers. Even if you are engaged,
the tyranny of the urgent (fires and alligators) often
overshadows good intentions.
However, there is another way that can Revolution-
ize Your Competitive Edge™ in the External Market-
place. We call it Internal Leadership.
But before we explain Internal Leadership, what dif-
ference can it make?
The ROI and Competitive
Advantage of Internal Leadership
What impact would it have if in a company every
employee was thinking about how to compete more
effectively, how to grow more revenue, lower costs,
be more productive, increase customer satisfaction,
extend your brand to their personal network, and in-
crease profitable growth?
Sound like a dream?
Let’s dig deeper. Let’s take seven examples and let
you do the math for your company.
1. Turnover and Bad Hires
Someone leaves the company or you hire someone
who you have to terminate in their first year. What is
the impact to your business?
Depending upon the salary level the traditional HR re-
sponse is from one to ten times their salary. It is not
just the cost of hiring, lost time, transition, and new
employee learning curve. It includes lost sales, lost
knowledge, perhaps theft of property or Intellectual
Property, or even legal issues. It includes the impact
to their team and the support for other teams.
One CEO shouted out to his HR manager, “See I told
you so! That last sales person cost me $6 million dollars!”
Think about your people in your company. What
would it typically cost you if a low level person left or
was terminated? How about a trusted direct report?
2. Employee Dissatisfaction
Studies have suggested that 60-70% of employees hate
their jobs. The reasons may have nothing to do with your
business. Perhaps they are in the wrong job, the wrong
company, or the wrong profession. Perhaps they have
expectations of entitlements that are unreasonable. Per-
haps they are completely dysfunctional but you are too
busy externally to notice or to deal with them.
What is the impact to your company if you have dis-
gruntled or dysfunctional employees? How can they
impact customers, team members, and even the en-
ergy in your company?
3. Low Employee Engagement
Some studies suggest that over 60% of employees
are not engaged in the business. That means over two
thirds of a typical workforce are merely going through
the motions. This may stem from employees hating
their jobs but instead of engaging in helping you build
your company, these employees create negative en-
ergy. They may not hate their jobs but are they moti-
vated and engaged in helping build your company?
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What would happen to your competitiveness if most of
your employees were fully engaged? How could that
change your financial and competitive picture?
4. Wrong Cultural Fit
America used to be a melting pot of cultures. People
from everywhere came to our shores but learned the
“American Culture.” Today, there no longer appears
to be an American Culture. Instead there is a diversity
that, if not channeled into your predefined company
culture, will create confusion and chaos.
Let’s illustrate. If you have one hundred employees
who each speak their own language, do you have
synergy and strong teams or do you have confusion
and chaos?
In the new America, besides multiple languages we
have additional complexities of different views of en-
titlements, politics, religion, national origin cultures,
belief systems, values, and even common definitions.
For example, is truth relative to one’s personal opin-
ion? Is there a right and a wrong? Today, the new
mantra seems to be more like, “Everyone is doing
what is right in their own eyes.”
How is that working out for your business?
What is the cost to your business?
What would the value be to you to have one culture…
that you defined?
5. Wrong Person in the Wrong Seat
Have you ever hired a great person who just wasn’t
a fit for the job you hired them for? Is it possible that
they could be a great person doing a great job in a
different role?
Sometimes the most irritating person might be full of
new ideas, innovation, wanting to change things, and
rubbing everyone the wrong way! However, some of
these people might actually be the future superstar
who actually can connect the dots, visualize logical
outcomes and impacts, and make improvements.
They may be perfect in a future strategic role but are
currently painful to put up with as they go through low-
er level ranks that “don’t appreciate their input.”
What if you could determine which behavioral roles fit
each job and then could assess each candidate to see
who is an actual fit for the roles you need filled today?
How could that impact turnover, team building, mo-
rale, and productivity?
6. Wrong Teaming Profile
Some companies are full of hard working, territorial,
rigid people who believe it’s “their way or the high-
way.” They micromanage and create a high stress en-
vironment. Is that your company?
Some companies are more political with very likeable
people who stab others in the back, take credit for other’s
work, are never wrong, always have a scapegoat, and
focus on building their own personal internal empire or
silo of power. Have you ever seen such a person? Does
that build up a company’s competitive edge or distract
resources, money, and energy away from external com-
petitiveness? How could such a person impact your com-
pany? In reality, since they are often very likeable, you
probably do have them in your company. Is what they are
bringing to the table worth the cost to the organization?
Other companies are full of hard working team players
who share ideas, build each other up, give each other
credit, help each other succeed, pay-it-forward, and
are dedicated to helping their company succeed…
even at the cost of personal time and energy.
You may choose to be a political company, a high pres-
sure company, or a team results driven company. If you
could design the Teaming Profile that you believe is right
for your company, what would the value be to you?
7. Being Clueless About Your Business
Even if you have the right person in the right seat with
the right culture and teaming profile who really wants
to help your business succeed, how can they unless
they understand your business, your products, your
marketing plan, your sales strategy, your competition,
and your customers?
How can they help tailor financial reports, human re-
source services, technology solutions, operational
support, legal support, and whatever their roles are if
they don’t understand or, worse, misunderstand?
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How can a security guard help or harm your business?
How can an IT programmer help or harm your business?
How can a CFO help or harm your business?
Many of these people are good people with good
intentions. But they may be unintentionally harming
your vision of where you want to go, the lines you
want drawn, and the expectations of your customers.
What they do impacts the business...but most em-
ployees don’t understand why or how.
We have all seen the CFO with too tight of controls
stifling sales, the warehouse manager trying to reduce
inventory but not being able to fill customer orders
on time, the HR manager who wants to help employ-
ee morale by investing in programs that do not have
a measurable ROI to your business, the programmer
who wants to build a Lexus program when all you need
is a Honda, the sales representative who is paid to
maximize revenue even if the margins are negative, or
the service technician who privately tells your customer
what he or she thinks will be helpful but more often is
undermining your marketing and sales messaging.
Who will teach them about your business?
What typically happens is that most employees try to
do what they think is expected but don’t realize their
judgment is wrong simply because they don’t under-
stand your business and how they may even be sab-
otaging your success.
What impact would it have on your business if every
employee understood your business, your culture,
your expectations, and how they could personally
succeed more by helping you succeed?
The answer to these questions is what we call Inter-
nal Leadership.
Internal Leadership Solutions
We believe there are three major internal gaps in
most companies.
The first gap, and most important, is the Leadership
Gap. We already described the challenge Business
Owners and CEOs have to simultaneously focus on Ex-
ternal Leadership and Internal Leadership. We strongly
recommend spending most of your time on your exter-
nal business while taking the time necessary for your in-
ternal business. Depending upon what type of company
you are, that ratio will vary. However, all three gaps are
ultimately a leadership issue…your issue.
The second gap is a Teaming Gap. This is where you
either have dysfunctional teams, silos, politics, and
chaos or the right people in the right seat aligned to
support your external growth success.
The third gap is an Employee Gap. This is where you
either have personal dissatisfaction, sabotage, theft,
obstruction, misdirection, and misbehavior, or moti-
vated employees focused on personal career success
by helping the company external growth success.
We discussed the benefits for each of these three
gaps to be filled. Now we will outline the steps we
recommend to close the gaps.
Leadership Gap
Internal
Leadership
Solutions
Team GapEmployee Gap
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Leadership Gap
The first major step is for you, the Owner, CEO, or
Decision-maker, to Define Your Business by com-
municating to each employee what you need, want,
and expect. Otherwise, how can they help you if they
don’t know how to help you?
Another benefit is to adapt the tools below to make
you more competitive in the eyes of your clients, sup-
pliers, and potential funding efforts with outside sourc-
es such as Private Equity. Most of your competition
will not be clear in their communication. Your Inter-
nal Leadership can significantly impact your External
Competitiveness.
Depending upon the size of your company, it may only
take a day or two to set up the foundation or it may
take a consulting project to develop the consensus
foundation that you can build upon later. In most cas-
es, getting started with a foundation is all that is need-
ed to go to the next level.
The second major step is to Design Your Team
Roles. Only you really understand what the team-
ing characteristics are for each seat. We recommend
senior executives take the step, with help, to strategi-
cally design the roles based upon the needs of The
Business. Once the design is completed, we recom-
mend delegating to HR and Operating Management
for implementation.
The third major step is Corporate Governance.
The First Step is for you to help your employees help
you by enabling, empowering, and leading them. The
Second Step is to be sure you have the right people in
the right role who are the right fit for your culture. But
you still need to ensure compliance with external laws
and regulations, reduce business and legal risk, and
put up fences and reporting to guide and monitor the
behavior of your teams.
We place governance third because if you have not
defined your business, vision, mission, culture, val-
ues, expectations, and metrics, why bother with gov-
ernance? Further, how should governance be unique-
ly designed for your company? If you have people in
your company who are not engaged, are discontent-
ed, or self-focused, the risk of failure in performance
and governance is high.
This is an opportunity for companies to close the lead-
ership gap by applying and integrating all three steps.
Notice this is all about you and your
business. This is Strategic Leadership.
NO ONE else can do this for you.
Teaming Gap – a Tactical Implementation
of Your Strategic Leadership
Here is where we recommend assessments of every
team member to validate if they are in the right seat and
fit the culture you defined. If there are gaps, we recom-
mend talking to us to evaluate the business risk and re-
turn potential for every action. We also recommend a
gradual phase-in to reduce risk and employee concerns.
When you are recruiting new employees or contrac-
tors, we strongly recommend the same process.
Here, done right, there should be little to no internal
political concerns.
There is a modest charge for each assessment report
but, as you grow, this is a tactical process that HR
should be able to tactically implement and Finance
should be able to track the financial impact. We can
help you with the initial implementation.
Finally, I strongly recommend a summary report to be
included in the leadership dashboard. I use it to re-
mind myself of everyone’s profile and how I should
work with them. Every profile prefers a different style.
This will help you work with them the way they re-
spond best. The dashboard can show progress, the
ROI, and areas of opportunity.
Employee Gap – a Tactical Implementation
of Your Strategic Leadership
Most employees don’t really know what to do and are
too scared to ask. You can guess the impact to your
business.
The same is true about employees not knowing how
they can add more value, help your business, and help
their own career success by helping your success.
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The larger your company, the bigger this issue becomes.
So, how can you help the employee learn your busi-
ness, learn how to add more value, help your busi-
ness, and be motivated by seeing how their career
can grow by helping the company grow?
The answer is through a curriculum we designed just
for them. While not everyone needs the full offering,
we find that just one golden nugget of an improved
attitude, one innovation, one suggestion can change
their life and help close the gap. The curriculum in-
cludes books, webinars, workshops, and coaching.
In fact, the program includes a truckload of golden
nuggets which can change their life, improve their val-
ue to you, show them how to become motivated and
engaged because they now have a roadmap to their
own personal career success – in alignment with fo-
cusing on company success.
We call this curriculum, “Jobpreneurship™”, which is
how the individual can take control of their own life,
learn to fish, and be held responsible and accounta-
ble for the results of their own actions, or lack thereof.
This program has rave reviews, including the number
one business thought leader in the world in 2011. Mar-
shall Goldsmith’s endorsement and many others are
on our website (www.JobDoctorsInternational.com).
In addition, we teach individuals how to treat them-
selves as a business. What is their product that you
should want to pay for and what new product features
will you want to see to promote them? How are they
marketing themselves so you know who they are and
their value to you - especially if they are several levels
down? How are they selling their ideas up to you to
help your business in a way that you understand them
and understand the value of their ideas - with minimal
political fallout?
In other words, we teach them how businesses sell
to other businesses just as you sell to consumers or
businesses. The ultimate picture looks the same:
Now you might think this is overkill for a security guard,
analyst, or clerk. But do they know how to help you?
Do they know your business? Are they engaged? Are
they personally motivated to help you because they
see how the results can help them? Will they under-
stand your business better because they are moti-
vated to learn how to view themselves as a business
needed to develop, market, and sell?
Our curriculum is based on solid business thinking that
applies to any business and to any employee but you
may be thinking, “My business is different.” We agree.
So, we encourage you to consider our curriculum as a
solid business foundation that you can adapt and build
upon for your unique business. In other words, we pro-
vide the instruction for the best practice foundation.
You help your people apply it to your unique business.
The additional secret to our program is that we are not
asking you to mentor anyone. We encourage you to
mentor the few you have time to help but this program
allows you to extend the same knowledge to every-
one – to provide a level playing field to allow future
superstars to grab onto. The problem is that most of
us don’t know who they are. People mature. People
change. When they get hungry or experience a sig-
nificant emotional event, even the least likely person
can surprise you if you give them the chance.
So, how do you teach them? First, by giving them
our materials (books, webinars or workshops, and
perhaps virtual phone coaching) and then Advising
Them. Notice that I did not say mentor them. Our ma-
terials ask tough questions that encourage employ-
ees to think through each area. Then they write down
their answers and schedule a 15-30 minute meeting
with you to ask your Advice. Most of us can schedule
15-30 minutes. Most of us don’t mind giving advice.
Only you can explain your business, vision, culture,
and how they can add value to you.
In large companies, the advisors may be the employ-
ee’s manager or someone further down the manage-
ment chain - which is why we recommend this be a
companywide program.
This model works because we rarely know what ques-
tions our employees have. They are often too scared
or too uneducated to know how to ask the right ques-
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Development
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tions that can help them help themselves by helping
your company’s success. Now, all you have to do is
to pontificate based upon your unique knowledge of
your unique business, culture, values, beliefs, and
everything they need to know to become successful.
Besides, how else will you have genuine communica-
tions going bottom up?
You will find that many employees will still not want
to be engaged and participate. But what if 20% do?
How can that help your company and them? If 20%
become more successful, is it possible another 30%
may want to join the success track? What would the
value be to them and to your company?
An additional benefit is you will be giving everyone a
level playing field. I believe every employee is entitled
to that opportunity. The results are own their shoulder,
not yours.
For those who don’t want to learn or who do ask for
advice but don’t follow it, as long as they are value
workers, you will probably still give them an oppor-
tunity. But for those who do not participate and are
not value workers, between the assessment and this
process, you might want to consider bringing in others
who do want to grow and contribute to company suc-
cess. After all, actions do speak louder than words.
Over time you can change the company culture of
engagement, innovation, contribution, and motivation
with everyone seeing how success ultimately comes
from company growth with higher margins and pro-
motional opportunities.
We believe this process will help close the Employee
Gap while also helping employees communicate new
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Combining Corporate Governance with Internal Leadership

  • 1. Combining Corporate Governance with Internal Leadership To Revolutionize Your Competitive Edge™ by Jim Villwock and Dwayne E. Jorgensen www.JobDoctorsInternational.com
  • 2. What is Corporate Governance? Corporate governance refers to how everyone ranging from the board of directors to management, sharehold- ers, suppliers, customers, and employees is monitored so that all stakeholder interests, including regulatory and society’s interests are effectively protected. The five key components of governance include: 1) Risk Education and Assessment, 2) Internal Con- trols Design based on Identification of Key Risks, 3) Identification of Existing Controls in Policies as well as Implementation of New Controls, 4) “Truthful Knowl- edge” through operating, monitoring, and reporting, and 5) Sustainability through Proactive periodic re- views of the Key Risks and Remedial Actions. Why is Corporate Governance Necessary? Whether from ignorance or intent, company stakehold- ers do not always align and follow the best interests of the company, shareholders, and society. Another way of stating it is that humans have a range of aware- ness, understanding, and competence and a range of self-centeredness, criminal intent, and honesty. Even in the honest pursuit of revenue and profit, a natural tension exists between Business Risk ver- sus Business Opportunity. For example, in the pursuit of sales, a salesperson may commit to pricing, legal terms, or commitments that may exceed his or her authority and violate the internal controls of the company. The reason for those controls might be to protect profitability, legal liability, or contingent liabilities which could have a major im- pact on the company. These controls can be viewed negatively as “sales prevention” or as a positive pro- cess to insure the right level of management reviews and concurs with the sales person, offers alternative suggestions, or declines the deal. Another example might be moving operations over- seas to a lower cost of labor location for short term profit improvements while potentially losing intellectu- al capital and a long-term strategic advantage. Gov- ernance reviews the risks and monitors the controls to balance risk and opportunity, and ensures that Truthful Knowledge is effectively communicated to all relevant parties. Governance provides the systems, principles, and processes to inform and create the environment re- quired to comply with legal, business, regulatory, and fiduciary requirements by directing and controlling members in the company in a way that allows the company to fulfill its goals and objectives while bene- fiting all stakeholders in the long term. Ongoing reviews of relevant guidelines with employ- ees should also become part of the training process to increase employee awareness and competence. 2 © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 3. 3 Who is Responsible for Corporate Governance? Ultimately, the most senior leaders of the organiza- tion are responsible. This is the only way that a true “Tone at the Top” can be set. Company Boards and Senior Executive Management also have the primary responsibility. Employee compliance is required. In- ternal auditors validate compliance. External auditors provide an independent external verification primarily for the financial areas. In smaller companies, the CEO and the CFO are typ- ically the primary drivers for governance. In large companies, the CEO and CFO are operation- ally responsible. In addition, there is typically an Audit Committee representing the Board of Directors and an internal audit function to oversee the companies compliance with Governance, external auditors to provide an independent assessment, and a delegat- ed sharing of responsibility to all management levels. What is the Risk / Reward of Governance? Risk Reward Strategic Investor Confidence Regulatory Public Confidence Financial Employee Confidence Operational Regulatory Confidence Legal Cost Avoidance Depending upon the situation, severity, and type of vio- lation, the risk can be internal and external to the compa- ny. Strategic risks can exist in every department and with any employee, not just at the Board or Executive levels. Regulatory risks are often changing rapidly and create a constant challenge. Financial risks range from theft to major liquidity or capital exposures that can destroy the company. Operational risks range from a manufacturing plant floor shutting down to a loss of intellectual property and confidential data. Legal risks, intended or unintend- ed, may range from personal fines to jail time. On the other hand, when the competition is in the news with a major issue, due to a lack of an effective risk management program, the core of governance, the time and effort for effective governance pays off in confidence and cost avoidance. When compared to a less prepared competitor, governance can become a competitive advantage. You would think companies would have a tight control on corporate governance. However, due to the rush and pressure of daily activities, sometimes surprisingly little attention is given to governance other than ensur- ing the entity’s business processes are in place and complies with minimum requirements. Why? Often the consequences are assumed to be an acceptable cost of doing business or assumed to be manageable with- out knowing the costs. As long as the company that blows up is some other company, life goes on with the assumption that “it won’t happen here.” British Petroleum allegedly had employees who did not follow standard procedures on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in an oil spill that was in the headlines for over a year, cost the CEO his job, and resulted in fines and legal exposures starting at $20 billion. Enron is a famous example costing the company and its shareholders billions of dollars with the CEO currently still in jail. Everyone reading this paper can probably share a story about their company or a competitor who’s gov- ernance failures resulted in lost revenue, profit, or competitive positioning. What are typical Risk Areas? Assets at Risk Systems Cash & Investments Information Quality Inventory Security Intellectual Property Disaster Planning Equipment and Software Operations Financial Procurement Data Accuracy Production Available Information Material Handling Completeness of Data Sales Accounts Receivables Services Accounts Payable Human Resources Banking Planning Cash Flow Legal Capital Availability Environmental... © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 4. As you can see, this is not just a CEO or CFO chal- lenge. Every person in every department has risk and opportunity. While governance focuses on controlling and mitigating identified key risks, when we discuss Internal Leadership, we will show how to further re- duce risk and increase opportunity through compan- ywide business alignment, engagement, and motiva- tion focused on growing the business revenue, profit, and competitive edge. What are Examples of Risk? Functional Conversion Strategic Business Processes Finance Alignment Collateral Authority Capital Availability Compliance Counterparty Bench Strength Competition Contracting Credit Budgeting and Planning Financial Markets Empowerment Currency Capacity Flexibility Environment Derivatives Communication Industry Fraud Interest Rates Cycle Time Leadership Health and Safety Liquidity Efficiency Legal Illegal Activities Reinvestment Human Resources Regulatory Management Info. Settlement Organization Structures Product Life Cycle Obsolescence/ Shrinkage Theft Performance Metrics Reputation Relevance Pricing Trademark Erosion Unauthorized Use Resource Allocation Intellectual PropTheft Suppliers Sovereign Technology Selection Strategic Assumptions Technology Deployment Valuation Technology Reporting Availability Financial Assessment Access Evaluation Functionality Financial Statements Integrity Falsification Penetration Regulatory Reporting Usability Taxation Most of these examples go far beyond theft or neg- ligence. While the list may seem overwhelming, it is not exhaustive. If some of these items surprise you, think how much further they are out of the mindshare of non-managers who are never even shown this list or taught about governance. For more information on corporate governance, we recommend our white papers entitled: • Corporate Governance Post Sarbanes-Oxley • Tip of the Compliance Iceberg You can find these white papers at www.JobDoctorsInternational.com/governance. 4 © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 5. How is Governance Typically Viewed In Motivation Theory? Governance goes much further than dealing with em- ployees. However, employees do have a major im- pact on governance. Therefore, let’s talk about the key stakeholders in governance who are working in the company...leadership and employees. In our opinion, governance can be viewed positively as helping to protect the company, employees, and all interested parties. It can also be used to improve company competitiveness by helping guide and align employees, lower risks, and help the company brand. However, in practice, many companies use govern- ance as a Theory X process to provide the compre- hensive systems of controls for employee supervision. Theory X assumes employees have to be closely watched in a hierarchical structure with increasingly narrow spans of control and influence at each level. This can sometimes lead to compliance mindsets that are risk, change, innovation, and adaptability adverse. Under Theory Y, the assumption and expectation is that employees will be self-motivated to become engaged, energetic, innovative, and aligned with the company for personal career success by adding value that sup- ports company success. These attributes embrace risk, change, and competitive challenges. However, absent corporate governance, this enthusiasm for personal success may or may not be in alignment with the best interests of the company. Or worse, may result in inten- tional or unintentional damage ranging from fraud, dis- ruptive internal politics, or other harm to the company. Therefore, we are offering a governance program within Job Doctors International™ alongside a new way of looking at how companies can increase their competitive edge through a parallel process that we call Internal Leadership. By combining both pro- grams, we believe a company can revolutionize their competitive edge by maximizing business opportunity while minimizing business risk. So, what is Internal Leadership? Let’s begin with de- fining External Leadership. Since we have already discussed governance, we will be focusing on driving revenue, profit, and a competitive advantage. External Leadership Every company, whether large or small, survives and thrives by driving more sales and profit. Simple, isn’t it? Well, perhaps it is not so simple. Most companies focus on product development, mar- keting, and sales. If there is no product, there is no rea- son to go to market. If the market is not aware of their product or if the company has a bad reputation, there are no sales. If there are no sales, there is no company. Therefore, product development must be outward focused on what the client needs and wants to buy. Marketing must be outward focused on developing cli- ent awareness, branding, understanding of your val- ue proposition, and lead generation. Sales must be outward focused on closing the deal, delivering the solution, getting paid, and repeating the process. Most executives focus on this area because it is the core of what their business is! This is what I call The Business. Everything else is designed to support the business…and that is where the problem begins. While senior executives are focusing externally on The Business, who is focusing on aligning everyone together to do the business? Who is strategically en- gaging everyone in the organization from the lowest level to the highest level to help you not only grow the business but to fulfill the vision that you have for the company? Who is providing the Internal Leadership while you are focusing on External Leadership? In most cases…few to none. 60% of Company Failures are due to People Problems (Source: VC Industry) Many companies have good people but how many of your people know your business? If they don’t know your business, how can they help you grow your busi- ness? How many of your people are truly strategic 5 Product Development Marketing Sales © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 6. (1-5 year focus on growing the business)? How many can connect the dots between your business and what they should be doing to provide innovation, best practices, employee alignment, and motivated em- ployee engagement? Even if you have several people to strategically help and who can also tactically implement, do they repre- sent the whole company or just their silo? We are not pointing fingers. Even if you are engaged, the tyranny of the urgent (fires and alligators) often overshadows good intentions. However, there is another way that can Revolution- ize Your Competitive Edge™ in the External Market- place. We call it Internal Leadership. But before we explain Internal Leadership, what dif- ference can it make? The ROI and Competitive Advantage of Internal Leadership What impact would it have if in a company every employee was thinking about how to compete more effectively, how to grow more revenue, lower costs, be more productive, increase customer satisfaction, extend your brand to their personal network, and in- crease profitable growth? Sound like a dream? Let’s dig deeper. Let’s take seven examples and let you do the math for your company. 1. Turnover and Bad Hires Someone leaves the company or you hire someone who you have to terminate in their first year. What is the impact to your business? Depending upon the salary level the traditional HR re- sponse is from one to ten times their salary. It is not just the cost of hiring, lost time, transition, and new employee learning curve. It includes lost sales, lost knowledge, perhaps theft of property or Intellectual Property, or even legal issues. It includes the impact to their team and the support for other teams. One CEO shouted out to his HR manager, “See I told you so! That last sales person cost me $6 million dollars!” Think about your people in your company. What would it typically cost you if a low level person left or was terminated? How about a trusted direct report? 2. Employee Dissatisfaction Studies have suggested that 60-70% of employees hate their jobs. The reasons may have nothing to do with your business. Perhaps they are in the wrong job, the wrong company, or the wrong profession. Perhaps they have expectations of entitlements that are unreasonable. Per- haps they are completely dysfunctional but you are too busy externally to notice or to deal with them. What is the impact to your company if you have dis- gruntled or dysfunctional employees? How can they impact customers, team members, and even the en- ergy in your company? 3. Low Employee Engagement Some studies suggest that over 60% of employees are not engaged in the business. That means over two thirds of a typical workforce are merely going through the motions. This may stem from employees hating their jobs but instead of engaging in helping you build your company, these employees create negative en- ergy. They may not hate their jobs but are they moti- vated and engaged in helping build your company? 28 100 200 200 300 400 400 600 800 1 M 500 56 84 112 140 $0 $200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 $1,000,000 20K 40K 60K 80K 100K LOW MID HIGH Low to High Bad Hire Cost v. Salary Salary Estim ated Cost 6 © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 7. What would happen to your competitiveness if most of your employees were fully engaged? How could that change your financial and competitive picture? 4. Wrong Cultural Fit America used to be a melting pot of cultures. People from everywhere came to our shores but learned the “American Culture.” Today, there no longer appears to be an American Culture. Instead there is a diversity that, if not channeled into your predefined company culture, will create confusion and chaos. Let’s illustrate. If you have one hundred employees who each speak their own language, do you have synergy and strong teams or do you have confusion and chaos? In the new America, besides multiple languages we have additional complexities of different views of en- titlements, politics, religion, national origin cultures, belief systems, values, and even common definitions. For example, is truth relative to one’s personal opin- ion? Is there a right and a wrong? Today, the new mantra seems to be more like, “Everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes.” How is that working out for your business? What is the cost to your business? What would the value be to you to have one culture… that you defined? 5. Wrong Person in the Wrong Seat Have you ever hired a great person who just wasn’t a fit for the job you hired them for? Is it possible that they could be a great person doing a great job in a different role? Sometimes the most irritating person might be full of new ideas, innovation, wanting to change things, and rubbing everyone the wrong way! However, some of these people might actually be the future superstar who actually can connect the dots, visualize logical outcomes and impacts, and make improvements. They may be perfect in a future strategic role but are currently painful to put up with as they go through low- er level ranks that “don’t appreciate their input.” What if you could determine which behavioral roles fit each job and then could assess each candidate to see who is an actual fit for the roles you need filled today? How could that impact turnover, team building, mo- rale, and productivity? 6. Wrong Teaming Profile Some companies are full of hard working, territorial, rigid people who believe it’s “their way or the high- way.” They micromanage and create a high stress en- vironment. Is that your company? Some companies are more political with very likeable people who stab others in the back, take credit for other’s work, are never wrong, always have a scapegoat, and focus on building their own personal internal empire or silo of power. Have you ever seen such a person? Does that build up a company’s competitive edge or distract resources, money, and energy away from external com- petitiveness? How could such a person impact your com- pany? In reality, since they are often very likeable, you probably do have them in your company. Is what they are bringing to the table worth the cost to the organization? Other companies are full of hard working team players who share ideas, build each other up, give each other credit, help each other succeed, pay-it-forward, and are dedicated to helping their company succeed… even at the cost of personal time and energy. You may choose to be a political company, a high pres- sure company, or a team results driven company. If you could design the Teaming Profile that you believe is right for your company, what would the value be to you? 7. Being Clueless About Your Business Even if you have the right person in the right seat with the right culture and teaming profile who really wants to help your business succeed, how can they unless they understand your business, your products, your marketing plan, your sales strategy, your competition, and your customers? How can they help tailor financial reports, human re- source services, technology solutions, operational support, legal support, and whatever their roles are if they don’t understand or, worse, misunderstand? 7 © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 8. How can a security guard help or harm your business? How can an IT programmer help or harm your business? How can a CFO help or harm your business? Many of these people are good people with good intentions. But they may be unintentionally harming your vision of where you want to go, the lines you want drawn, and the expectations of your customers. What they do impacts the business...but most em- ployees don’t understand why or how. We have all seen the CFO with too tight of controls stifling sales, the warehouse manager trying to reduce inventory but not being able to fill customer orders on time, the HR manager who wants to help employ- ee morale by investing in programs that do not have a measurable ROI to your business, the programmer who wants to build a Lexus program when all you need is a Honda, the sales representative who is paid to maximize revenue even if the margins are negative, or the service technician who privately tells your customer what he or she thinks will be helpful but more often is undermining your marketing and sales messaging. Who will teach them about your business? What typically happens is that most employees try to do what they think is expected but don’t realize their judgment is wrong simply because they don’t under- stand your business and how they may even be sab- otaging your success. What impact would it have on your business if every employee understood your business, your culture, your expectations, and how they could personally succeed more by helping you succeed? The answer to these questions is what we call Inter- nal Leadership. Internal Leadership Solutions We believe there are three major internal gaps in most companies. The first gap, and most important, is the Leadership Gap. We already described the challenge Business Owners and CEOs have to simultaneously focus on Ex- ternal Leadership and Internal Leadership. We strongly recommend spending most of your time on your exter- nal business while taking the time necessary for your in- ternal business. Depending upon what type of company you are, that ratio will vary. However, all three gaps are ultimately a leadership issue…your issue. The second gap is a Teaming Gap. This is where you either have dysfunctional teams, silos, politics, and chaos or the right people in the right seat aligned to support your external growth success. The third gap is an Employee Gap. This is where you either have personal dissatisfaction, sabotage, theft, obstruction, misdirection, and misbehavior, or moti- vated employees focused on personal career success by helping the company external growth success. We discussed the benefits for each of these three gaps to be filled. Now we will outline the steps we recommend to close the gaps. Leadership Gap Internal Leadership Solutions Team GapEmployee Gap 8 © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 9. 9 Leadership Gap The first major step is for you, the Owner, CEO, or Decision-maker, to Define Your Business by com- municating to each employee what you need, want, and expect. Otherwise, how can they help you if they don’t know how to help you? Another benefit is to adapt the tools below to make you more competitive in the eyes of your clients, sup- pliers, and potential funding efforts with outside sourc- es such as Private Equity. Most of your competition will not be clear in their communication. Your Inter- nal Leadership can significantly impact your External Competitiveness. Depending upon the size of your company, it may only take a day or two to set up the foundation or it may take a consulting project to develop the consensus foundation that you can build upon later. In most cas- es, getting started with a foundation is all that is need- ed to go to the next level. The second major step is to Design Your Team Roles. Only you really understand what the team- ing characteristics are for each seat. We recommend senior executives take the step, with help, to strategi- cally design the roles based upon the needs of The Business. Once the design is completed, we recom- mend delegating to HR and Operating Management for implementation. The third major step is Corporate Governance. The First Step is for you to help your employees help you by enabling, empowering, and leading them. The Second Step is to be sure you have the right people in the right role who are the right fit for your culture. But you still need to ensure compliance with external laws and regulations, reduce business and legal risk, and put up fences and reporting to guide and monitor the behavior of your teams. We place governance third because if you have not defined your business, vision, mission, culture, val- ues, expectations, and metrics, why bother with gov- ernance? Further, how should governance be unique- ly designed for your company? If you have people in your company who are not engaged, are discontent- ed, or self-focused, the risk of failure in performance and governance is high. This is an opportunity for companies to close the lead- ership gap by applying and integrating all three steps. Notice this is all about you and your business. This is Strategic Leadership. NO ONE else can do this for you. Teaming Gap – a Tactical Implementation of Your Strategic Leadership Here is where we recommend assessments of every team member to validate if they are in the right seat and fit the culture you defined. If there are gaps, we recom- mend talking to us to evaluate the business risk and re- turn potential for every action. We also recommend a gradual phase-in to reduce risk and employee concerns. When you are recruiting new employees or contrac- tors, we strongly recommend the same process. Here, done right, there should be little to no internal political concerns. There is a modest charge for each assessment report but, as you grow, this is a tactical process that HR should be able to tactically implement and Finance should be able to track the financial impact. We can help you with the initial implementation. Finally, I strongly recommend a summary report to be included in the leadership dashboard. I use it to re- mind myself of everyone’s profile and how I should work with them. Every profile prefers a different style. This will help you work with them the way they re- spond best. The dashboard can show progress, the ROI, and areas of opportunity. Employee Gap – a Tactical Implementation of Your Strategic Leadership Most employees don’t really know what to do and are too scared to ask. You can guess the impact to your business. The same is true about employees not knowing how they can add more value, help your business, and help their own career success by helping your success. © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 10. The larger your company, the bigger this issue becomes. So, how can you help the employee learn your busi- ness, learn how to add more value, help your busi- ness, and be motivated by seeing how their career can grow by helping the company grow? The answer is through a curriculum we designed just for them. While not everyone needs the full offering, we find that just one golden nugget of an improved attitude, one innovation, one suggestion can change their life and help close the gap. The curriculum in- cludes books, webinars, workshops, and coaching. In fact, the program includes a truckload of golden nuggets which can change their life, improve their val- ue to you, show them how to become motivated and engaged because they now have a roadmap to their own personal career success – in alignment with fo- cusing on company success. We call this curriculum, “Jobpreneurship™”, which is how the individual can take control of their own life, learn to fish, and be held responsible and accounta- ble for the results of their own actions, or lack thereof. This program has rave reviews, including the number one business thought leader in the world in 2011. Mar- shall Goldsmith’s endorsement and many others are on our website (www.JobDoctorsInternational.com). In addition, we teach individuals how to treat them- selves as a business. What is their product that you should want to pay for and what new product features will you want to see to promote them? How are they marketing themselves so you know who they are and their value to you - especially if they are several levels down? How are they selling their ideas up to you to help your business in a way that you understand them and understand the value of their ideas - with minimal political fallout? In other words, we teach them how businesses sell to other businesses just as you sell to consumers or businesses. The ultimate picture looks the same: Now you might think this is overkill for a security guard, analyst, or clerk. But do they know how to help you? Do they know your business? Are they engaged? Are they personally motivated to help you because they see how the results can help them? Will they under- stand your business better because they are moti- vated to learn how to view themselves as a business needed to develop, market, and sell? Our curriculum is based on solid business thinking that applies to any business and to any employee but you may be thinking, “My business is different.” We agree. So, we encourage you to consider our curriculum as a solid business foundation that you can adapt and build upon for your unique business. In other words, we pro- vide the instruction for the best practice foundation. You help your people apply it to your unique business. The additional secret to our program is that we are not asking you to mentor anyone. We encourage you to mentor the few you have time to help but this program allows you to extend the same knowledge to every- one – to provide a level playing field to allow future superstars to grab onto. The problem is that most of us don’t know who they are. People mature. People change. When they get hungry or experience a sig- nificant emotional event, even the least likely person can surprise you if you give them the chance. So, how do you teach them? First, by giving them our materials (books, webinars or workshops, and perhaps virtual phone coaching) and then Advising Them. Notice that I did not say mentor them. Our ma- terials ask tough questions that encourage employ- ees to think through each area. Then they write down their answers and schedule a 15-30 minute meeting with you to ask your Advice. Most of us can schedule 15-30 minutes. Most of us don’t mind giving advice. Only you can explain your business, vision, culture, and how they can add value to you. In large companies, the advisors may be the employ- ee’s manager or someone further down the manage- ment chain - which is why we recommend this be a companywide program. This model works because we rarely know what ques- tions our employees have. They are often too scared or too uneducated to know how to ask the right ques- Product Development Marketing Sales 10 © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 11. 11 tions that can help them help themselves by helping your company’s success. Now, all you have to do is to pontificate based upon your unique knowledge of your unique business, culture, values, beliefs, and everything they need to know to become successful. Besides, how else will you have genuine communica- tions going bottom up? You will find that many employees will still not want to be engaged and participate. But what if 20% do? How can that help your company and them? If 20% become more successful, is it possible another 30% may want to join the success track? What would the value be to them and to your company? An additional benefit is you will be giving everyone a level playing field. I believe every employee is entitled to that opportunity. The results are own their shoulder, not yours. For those who don’t want to learn or who do ask for advice but don’t follow it, as long as they are value workers, you will probably still give them an oppor- tunity. But for those who do not participate and are not value workers, between the assessment and this process, you might want to consider bringing in others who do want to grow and contribute to company suc- cess. After all, actions do speak louder than words. Over time you can change the company culture of engagement, innovation, contribution, and motivation with everyone seeing how success ultimately comes from company growth with higher margins and pro- motional opportunities. We believe this process will help close the Employee Gap while also helping employees communicate new ideas, suggestions, observations, and help your compa- ny become more competitive from the bottom up. Now you have communications from top down and bottom up. To learn more about Internal Leadership, we recom- mend our special report that explains how we help close the gaps. For more information on Internal Leadership, we rec- ommend our white paper entitled: The Secret Weapon...To Revolutionizing Your Competitive Edge™. You can find this white paper at www.JobDoctorsInternational.com/leadership. © Copyright, 2013, Job Doctors International, LLC., All rights Reserved
  • 12. Jim Villwock Founder of Job Doctors International, LLC, is an award- winning author, speaker, innovative thought leader for revolutionizing company and individual competitive success, and a former Fortune 500 global executive whose leadership created new businesses, new paradigms, and made significant profit contributions. If you wish to learn more, we encourage you check out our website: www.JobDoctorsInternational.com. Dwayne E. Jorgensen CIA, CFE, is an expert in Corporate Governance and Internal Audit Services. Mr. Jorgensen created the Sarbanes-Oxley Services & IT Governance global practice for Computer Task Group (CTG), and was North American Practice Director of Internal Audit Services for Jefferson Wells International. He oversaw the growth and development of both firm’s internal audit service lines in the United States, Europe and Canada. T: 888-420-6861  |  E: Jim@JobDoctorsIntl.com www.JobDoctorsInternational.com