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We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
We Need to Have a Word, Words of Wisdom, Courage, and Patience for Work, Home, and Everywhere by John R. Dallas, Jr., is written and designed as a week-by-week reader. The 438-page volume contains 52 letters to readers for a full year of rapid immersion with high-impact wise words. Personal purpose, passion, and potential to be found within selected evocative words are honored as valuable buried treasures. Toward work-life alignment goals and objectives, the book leads readers to find themselves shining within the complexity and brilliance of 52 word gemstones. These are words to be. These words are action. These words support work-life alignment. From conference tables to kitchen tables, and from war rooms to locker rooms, these are words to support readers to dig, drill, and think deeper so each person will reach, climb, and stand higher. These are grown-up words for leaders of all ages. Some eager readers enjoy reading cover-to-cover, then again they read week-by-week for a full year of building value word-by-word.
438 pages, Hardcover
First published April 24, 2012
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About the author
John R. Dallas Jr.
2 books8 followersJohn R. Dallas, Jr. is an alignment strategist. Since 2005 he is Founder and Chief Alignment Officer (CAO) of Hillview Partners Network LLC, a Chicago-based team of independent consultants, executive coaches, and public speakers; credentialed individuals preeminent in fields related to strategic alignment of people, money, technology, and other resources.
Clients are among all types and sizes of organizations; from fully funded start-ups to major companies. John is author of We Need to Have a Word,
John is formerly President of five technology-based national service companies in New York, suburban Washington, D.C., and Chicago. His prior CEO post was President of Chicago Title Credit Services, Inc., then the nation’s largest big-data aggregator of consumer credit information for banks and other financial institutions,
Before being recruited to Chicago, in Northern Virginia he was lead Co-Founder and served as President of CreditComm Services, now known as Intersections, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed public company.
Since 1969 John has been on the front line building businesses and serving in leadership roles in other types of organizations. In Manhattan, he was President of three pacesetting technology-based national service companies: National Business Intelligence Corp. (renamed ETX Corporation), Group Concepts Capital Corp., and Market Access Resources Corp. (MARCOR). From before the start of his career, he chaired boards, councils, task forces and committees. He continues to mentor high-performing young adults.
Worldwide John ranks among the top 100 of over 2,500 mentors for Silicon Valley’s Founder Institute (FI), a global entrepreneurial support organization for cohorts of technology start-ups. He travels throughout the U.S. and internationally to speak with FI chapters. For Teach for America’s social entrepreneurship initiative for educators, he is a presenter and mentor.
He is a guest lecturer at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), DePaul University, Adler School of Professional Psychology and other schools.
In collaboration with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, John was among the 2007 founding team for Chicago Urban League’s nextONE Entrepreneurship Accelerator. On Fox TV-Chicago, John frequently appeared on nextONE’s four-time Emmy Award-winning series featuring entrepreneurial success stories.
Locally and nationally, many times over 40 years he was interviewed on ABC, CBS and NBC. He appears on radio talk programs, and is included in newspaper articles, blogs, podcasts, and online information resources. Through top social media outlets, almost daily John and his colleagues offer free value.
Chairman for two years of Technology Leadership Forum at the Union League Club of Chicago, John was voted by peers among the Chicago region’s top 100 technology leaders. He was the first Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Leadership Arts Certificate Program of The University of Chicago’s Graham School. John Chaired TechCamp Concepts L3C, producers of SocialDevCamp for developers and other technology professionals; held at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and DePaul University. In association with UIC, he served on the Board of Directors of Chicago Technology Park (TechPark) within Illinois Medical District (IMD).
While majoring in journalism and mass communications at Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University, John started a student-run publicity service for high-profile nonprofit groups: Junior Achievement, Youth Guidance, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts and Pittsburgh Jazz Festival.
Shortly after he started to win top PR awards, for-profit companies began to retain his young team. In 1972 a regional advertising agency acquired his start-up business. At age 22 John was named the buyer’s Vice President, Public Relations. One year later he was recruited to New York City. He continued his studies at Columbia University.
Clients are among all types and sizes of organizations; from fully funded start-ups to major companies. John is author of We Need to Have a Word,
John is formerly President of five technology-based national service companies in New York, suburban Washington, D.C., and Chicago. His prior CEO post was President of Chicago Title Credit Services, Inc., then the nation’s largest big-data aggregator of consumer credit information for banks and other financial institutions,
Before being recruited to Chicago, in Northern Virginia he was lead Co-Founder and served as President of CreditComm Services, now known as Intersections, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed public company.
Since 1969 John has been on the front line building businesses and serving in leadership roles in other types of organizations. In Manhattan, he was President of three pacesetting technology-based national service companies: National Business Intelligence Corp. (renamed ETX Corporation), Group Concepts Capital Corp., and Market Access Resources Corp. (MARCOR). From before the start of his career, he chaired boards, councils, task forces and committees. He continues to mentor high-performing young adults.
Worldwide John ranks among the top 100 of over 2,500 mentors for Silicon Valley’s Founder Institute (FI), a global entrepreneurial support organization for cohorts of technology start-ups. He travels throughout the U.S. and internationally to speak with FI chapters. For Teach for America’s social entrepreneurship initiative for educators, he is a presenter and mentor.
He is a guest lecturer at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), DePaul University, Adler School of Professional Psychology and other schools.
In collaboration with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, John was among the 2007 founding team for Chicago Urban League’s nextONE Entrepreneurship Accelerator. On Fox TV-Chicago, John frequently appeared on nextONE’s four-time Emmy Award-winning series featuring entrepreneurial success stories.
Locally and nationally, many times over 40 years he was interviewed on ABC, CBS and NBC. He appears on radio talk programs, and is included in newspaper articles, blogs, podcasts, and online information resources. Through top social media outlets, almost daily John and his colleagues offer free value.
Chairman for two years of Technology Leadership Forum at the Union League Club of Chicago, John was voted by peers among the Chicago region’s top 100 technology leaders. He was the first Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Leadership Arts Certificate Program of The University of Chicago’s Graham School. John Chaired TechCamp Concepts L3C, producers of SocialDevCamp for developers and other technology professionals; held at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and DePaul University. In association with UIC, he served on the Board of Directors of Chicago Technology Park (TechPark) within Illinois Medical District (IMD).
While majoring in journalism and mass communications at Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University, John started a student-run publicity service for high-profile nonprofit groups: Junior Achievement, Youth Guidance, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts and Pittsburgh Jazz Festival.
Shortly after he started to win top PR awards, for-profit companies began to retain his young team. In 1972 a regional advertising agency acquired his start-up business. At age 22 John was named the buyer’s Vice President, Public Relations. One year later he was recruited to New York City. He continued his studies at Columbia University.
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