Perspectives 2008

Marcus Buckingham
Best-Selling Author & Expert on Outstanding Leadership and Management Practices

Continuing the Perspectives tradition of finding the best speakers for
our conference attendees, this year is no exception. Perspectives
2008 welcomes Marcus Buckingham, speaker, author and expert in
leadership and management practices.

Recently featured on Oprah, Buckingham challenged years of
social theory and utilized his nearly two decades of research experience as a senior researcher at the Gallup Organization to breakthrough preconceptions about achievements and get to the core of what drives success.

Buckingham gives important insights to maximizing strengths, understanding the crucial differences between leadership and management, and fulfilling the quest for long-lasting personal success. Covered in his four best-selling books, companies that focus on cultivating employees’ strengths rather than simply improving their weaknesses stand to dramatically increase efficiency while allowing for maximum personal growth and success. A wonderful resource for leaders, managers and educators, Buckingham challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between engaged employees and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover.

Get ready to be engaged in every word, while learning the tricks to optimize your employees and create better management systems. Marcus addresses more than 250,000 thousand people globally each year. An absolute must attend!

Bruce M. Richardson
Chief Research Officer, AMR Research

Bruce Richardson brings more than 27 years of experience to his current role as chief research officer at AMR Research. Bruce has spent most of
his career analyzing the software industry with a
distinct emphasis on ERP and supply chain. Since joining AMR Research in 1988, he has been responsible for spearheading new market coverage and contributing to the company’s analysis of leading market trends in areas such as ERP, supply chain management, service oriented architectures, software-as-a-service, software appliances, and virtualization and visualization. Bruce is a soughtafter public speaker, having lectured and presented worldwide on the firm’s behalf nearly 500 times in more than twenty countries.

Eddie Amos
Microsoft General Manager - Worldwide Partner Evangelism

Eddie Amos is general manager within the Developer and Platform Strategy Group at Microsoft Corporation, focusing on the technical enablement of the Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community. His team also develops strategy and manages technical relationships with key partners supporting Microsoft’s midrange and competitive recruit programs.

Amos joined Microsoft in June 2002 as a senior director in the Platform Strategy and Partner Group, where he was responsible for strategy, technical oversight, evangelism and market development for Microsoft’s most strategic customers. He provided architectural guidance and insight to many Global 100 organizations on how to solve difficult integration issues using EAI and Web services technology.

 

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