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Can organizational trust and accountability coexist?

In business, balancing acts are everywhere, but none is more important than balancing organizational trust with accountability. Want to trust your colleagues and get work done? Join me at the intersection of organizational health and continuous improvement to learn how to install a management operating system into your business to promote long-term sustainability and success.

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Andy’s Books

Balancing Act

Balancing Act explores the characteristics required of a new generation of leaders who must find balance between strength and vulnerability; confidence and selflessness; passion and measure; single mindedness and inclusivity; determination and curiosity; and leadership and followership.

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The Balanced Business

The Balanced Business provides an actionable blueprint for leaders to install a management operating system that promotes clarity and smooth workflows among and between all team members, allowing everyone to contribute their best efforts to the organization’s value streams.

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The Balancing Act Podcast

The Balancing Act Podcast focuses on the balancing acts we play each day in our professional and personal lives. Recent episodes cover key business topics like:

  • Organizational Accountability

  • Critical Thinking

  • Change Management

  • Communication

  • Financial Acumen

  • Decision-Making

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Saturday Morning Muse

Every Saturday Morning, Andy goes deep on topics that span personal continuous improvement, business management, leadership, and current events.

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A Personal Planning Guidebook

This free guide from Dr. Andrew Temte is designed to lead you through a simple exercise that will help you:

  • Clearly define and communicate your personal purpose

  • Identify and prioritize activities that will steer you in the direction of your purpose

  • Eliminate unnecessary roadblocks that stand between you and your purpose

  • Turn “I wish” into “I will” and “I will” into “I am”

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Andrew Temte

Author, former CEO, thought leader, entrepreneur, podcaster, CFA Charterholder, musician, philanthropist, real estate developer, former college president, teacher, boat captain, biker, farmer, American, global citizen, father, husband, mentor, friend.

These are the words and phrases that describe who Andrew Temte was and is today.

Issues Andy is passionate about include:

  • Organizational health - trust balanced with accountability;

  • Continuous improvement - identifying/minimizing waste, respecting your people, and having a maniacal focus on the customer;

  • The Reskilling Revolution - up to a billion humans will need to be reskilled over the next ten years;

  • Achieving balance between behavioral and technical skill with a focus on emotional intelligence, communication, and leading with empathy;

  • Workreadiness, apprenticeships and experiential learning;

  • Alternative pathways to workplace competency (stackable skill portfolios v. degrees);

  • Diversity | Equity | Inclusion;

  • Discourse grounded in logic, rational thought, critical thinking, and reason; and

  • Truth, mental agility, and mutual respect/understanding to ensure we take care of each other and Planet Earth.