Community Development Banking List
02-15-2011, 11:18 AM
Original message from: gary@bakerassociates.se
Dear community development colleagues,
Greetings from Stockholm, Sweden, for those of you might wonder what the job
opportunities are for former VP's of Community Development when they move to
Europe.
I've recently released the first two of what will be a 6-handbook series on
diversity from business/leadership/organizational development perspectives:
10 Leadership Strategies for Sustainable Diversity, and 10 Financial
Arguments for Sustainable Diversity.
The series is a compilation of lessons learned over 20 years, ranging from
the earliest days of our regulatory compliance work as the US banking
industry was trying to figure out what the HECK was Congress thinking when
they passed FIRREA in 1989, to having started community development
departments at two California banks, to high-level consulting work at
Deloitte & Touche from 1996-1999, to ... Sweden ... with the highest
percentage of Iraqi refugees outside of the Middle East, a collective
mindset that promotes equality (but it helps if you're Swedish) and
institutionalized discrimination so thick at times you can cut it with a
knife. All in a quick-read format of 40 pages or less, inexpensive,
available globally and even previewable online.
My target audience for these handbooks - and presumably yours - is
operational managers, top leadership and even boards of directors. While US
managers are in most instances lightyears ahead of other countries'
management in their understanding of diversity's benefits and challenges,
there are still many who aren't - and those who are just learning. I didn't
have the US market in mind as I wrote this. But as one of the reviewers of
my first book, 10 Leadership Strategies for Sustainable Diversity, put it:
"A great introduction to diversity. Simple and straightforward for both
professionals and nonprofessionals, it is equally valuable in small offices
as it is in major corporations. As an introduction to the issue of diversity
in your organization, it's a great primer!"
Randolph F. Lowe
Former Chairman, California Governor Schwarzenegger's Committee on the
Employment of Individuals with Disabilities, and
Senior Vice President, Corporate Employment and Diversity, Union Bank of
California, San Francisco (retired)
(If you're not familiar with Union Bank of California where Randy served 10
years after leaving the Department of Labor, it consistently landed among
the top 5 of Fortune's Best Companies for Minorities while that list
existed.)
Interested in learning more? Or perhaps helping me get the word out? For
more information on current and planned handbooks through summer 2011, see
www.powerof10.eu. There you can click on a cover and learn more about each
booklet, preview parts of the first two that have been published - and who
knows, maybe you'll even want to order one or both). Or visit my company
website at www.bakerassociates.se for more information on my background and
work here in Sweden.
Best regards from a snowy Stockholm,
Gary
'
Gary Baker
+46 (0)70 212 5025
<mailto:gary@bakerassociates.se> gary@bakerassociates.se
<http://www.bakerassociates.se/> ('http://www.bakerassociates.se/>') www.bakerassociates.se
NOW AVAILABLE
The POWER OF 10 Diversity Management Series
by Gary Baker
10 Leadership Strategies for Sustainable Diversity, and
10 Financial Arguments for Sustainable Diversity
For a Series description and to order for delivery worldwide,
see <http://www.powerof10.eu/> ('http://www.powerof10.eu/>') www.powerof10.eu (English) or
<http://www.powerof10.se/> ('http://www.powerof10.se/>') www.powerof10.se (Swedish)
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Dear community development colleagues,
Greetings from Stockholm, Sweden, for those of you might wonder what the job
opportunities are for former VP's of Community Development when they move to
Europe.
I've recently released the first two of what will be a 6-handbook series on
diversity from business/leadership/organizational development perspectives:
10 Leadership Strategies for Sustainable Diversity, and 10 Financial
Arguments for Sustainable Diversity.
The series is a compilation of lessons learned over 20 years, ranging from
the earliest days of our regulatory compliance work as the US banking
industry was trying to figure out what the HECK was Congress thinking when
they passed FIRREA in 1989, to having started community development
departments at two California banks, to high-level consulting work at
Deloitte & Touche from 1996-1999, to ... Sweden ... with the highest
percentage of Iraqi refugees outside of the Middle East, a collective
mindset that promotes equality (but it helps if you're Swedish) and
institutionalized discrimination so thick at times you can cut it with a
knife. All in a quick-read format of 40 pages or less, inexpensive,
available globally and even previewable online.
My target audience for these handbooks - and presumably yours - is
operational managers, top leadership and even boards of directors. While US
managers are in most instances lightyears ahead of other countries'
management in their understanding of diversity's benefits and challenges,
there are still many who aren't - and those who are just learning. I didn't
have the US market in mind as I wrote this. But as one of the reviewers of
my first book, 10 Leadership Strategies for Sustainable Diversity, put it:
"A great introduction to diversity. Simple and straightforward for both
professionals and nonprofessionals, it is equally valuable in small offices
as it is in major corporations. As an introduction to the issue of diversity
in your organization, it's a great primer!"
Randolph F. Lowe
Former Chairman, California Governor Schwarzenegger's Committee on the
Employment of Individuals with Disabilities, and
Senior Vice President, Corporate Employment and Diversity, Union Bank of
California, San Francisco (retired)
(If you're not familiar with Union Bank of California where Randy served 10
years after leaving the Department of Labor, it consistently landed among
the top 5 of Fortune's Best Companies for Minorities while that list
existed.)
Interested in learning more? Or perhaps helping me get the word out? For
more information on current and planned handbooks through summer 2011, see
www.powerof10.eu. There you can click on a cover and learn more about each
booklet, preview parts of the first two that have been published - and who
knows, maybe you'll even want to order one or both). Or visit my company
website at www.bakerassociates.se for more information on my background and
work here in Sweden.
Best regards from a snowy Stockholm,
Gary
'
Gary Baker
+46 (0)70 212 5025
<mailto:gary@bakerassociates.se> gary@bakerassociates.se
<http://www.bakerassociates.se/> ('http://www.bakerassociates.se/>') www.bakerassociates.se
NOW AVAILABLE
The POWER OF 10 Diversity Management Series
by Gary Baker
10 Leadership Strategies for Sustainable Diversity, and
10 Financial Arguments for Sustainable Diversity
For a Series description and to order for delivery worldwide,
see <http://www.powerof10.eu/> ('http://www.powerof10.eu/>') www.powerof10.eu (English) or
<http://www.powerof10.se/> ('http://www.powerof10.se/>') www.powerof10.se (Swedish)
This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information
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