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Washington, D.C., March 29, 2006 - A panel of association management experts has been organized by Plexus Consulting Group, LLC (Plexus) that will address the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) on 22 August in Boston on the management issues raised in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s best selling book “A Team of Rivals.” The topic is entitled: “Team of Rivals: Can it Work for You?” Using a case study approach Steven Worth, the President of Plexus Consulting Group will facilitate a discussion with the Executive Director of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Virgil Carter and the Executive Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, Diane James. The discussion will focus on President Lincoln’s surprisingly successful use of his arch rivals within his Administration. “At a time when the United States was in its greatest peril, Lincoln made what for us in modern times is a rather curious decision to embrace his principal rivals and to bring them into his Administration,” says Worth. “Modern management thought with its emphasis on ‘command and control’ and personal loyalty to management would find Lincoln’s approach fraught with danger,” the Plexus president continued. “But Lincoln’s thinking was enlightening in this regard. He felt that in that time of great trial the nation needed to have access to all its greatest minds and personalities. As it turned out, it was precisely in this diversity of opinion and approach that he created one of the strongest and most creative war-time cabinets in American history. “Much can be learned from this approach by association managers who
are daily faced with the task of dealing with factional politics and
clashing personalities within their own organizations. The same is particularly
true in any and all international operations where relative US strength
makes a unilateral management approach very tempting,” Worth noted.
About Plexus Consulting Group, LLC Plexus Consulting Group is a management-consulting firm that provides marketing, management, and strategic planning services to association, for-profit, and governmental entities in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Plexus’s network of affiliate offices covers all these markets. The firm is headed by Steven Worth-a 25-year consulting veteran whose former professional titles include: Director of International Public Affairs and Communications, Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu; Managing Director of Hill and Knowlton Brussels, and Press Liaison for the U.S. Senate Majority Leader’s office.
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