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Tom Jones has studied organizations and the people they employ long enough to have a keen sense of what it takes for both to prosper. He writes and speaks about those leadership challenges and management perplexities that ultimately determine the success or failure of today’s customer-sensitive workplace.In his new book, Doers: The Vital Few Who Get Things Done, Tom shows employers how to create a workplace where doers flourish. He also shows doers how to seek out an organization where their eagerness to succeed is recognized and rewarded.Tom holds a doctoral degree in organization and leadership from the University of San Francisco. He has lectured at six universities and currently teaches Principles of Management for the College of Business at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Tom Jones

As an organization considers succession planning, it is essential to form a cross-departmental succession planning team.

Setting the Stage for Succession Planning

Disruption provides an opportunity to question and compare current processes to future needs.

Looking for Disruption in the Wrong Places

Don’t Let Disruption Derail Your Career

The challenge in constructing a team is to find a way to pull isolated individuals together around a common task.

Thriving in a State of Confusion, Part 3

Performance management and process improvement are potent feedback tools that expose the sources of confusion—helping leaders to clarify expectations and open the pathway to greater collaboration.

Thriving in a State of Confusion, Part 2

There are three descriptive categories present in a state of confusion. Each one takes the form of a path that shows the way forward without disclosing what is at the end.

Thriving in a State of Confusion, Part 1

Much like a contagious disease, dysfunction spreads from person to person and from unit to unit. If the condition is left undiagnosed, an entire organization can become dysfunctional and not know it is sick.

Overcoming Workplace Dysfunction and Restoring Functionality

While most leadership development is aimed at management, there is a big gap in training support for Doers.

What to Do About Doers

Building trust-based relationships moves you out of personalizing the task and into objectifying it.

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