The Diamond Process
How to Fix Your Organization and Effectively Lead People
MG (Ret.) Mike J. Diamond & Christopher R. Harding
Effective Leadership—It’s a Process
Good leadership is about more than inspiring people. Effective leadership stands on two pillars: excellent people and efficient processes. Through well-tested models and a series of structured metrics, The Diamond Process will help you identify weak points in your work flow so that you can retroactively fix your organization and make it more efficient.
Using the Diamond Process Model, you'll learn how to—
•IDENTIFY and REFINE your organization’s key drivers or primary motivations.
•INTEGRATE resources like people, equipment, and funding with the processes that achieve the key drivers.
•BALANCE the key drivers, resources, and processes.
•CREATE new processes for long-term SUCCESS.
Authors Mike Diamond and Chris Harding pull on their considerable experience in the corporate and military worlds to share a wholly innovative approach to effective leadership. Whether you are a small business owner or a shift manager, The Diamond Process will help you transform your organization and lead your team more effectively.
Mike Diamond has parlayed over 40 years of leadership experience in the military and corporate sectors into the publishing of The Diamond Process: How to Fix Your Organization and Effectively Lead People. Additionally, he has founded Diamond Strategy Group, which provides fixes for organizations and aids in improving skills for leading people and processes. He has been a mentor/trainer/coach/facilitator in most of his military and civilian roles. He brings this wealth of experience in military, manufacturing, retail, consulting, IT and many other sectors to help improve performance in organizations.
Mike is a retired Major General that has led over 27,000 military members in combat support operations in the Middle East and led the first force rotation. Additionally, he has served two tours at US Central Command (CENTCOM) as the Deputy Director of Logistics and Director of Coalition Coordination Center.He is also working on a second book that details how to become a complete leader that should be released in early 2018.
Christopher R. Harding is a 23-year veteran who is currently serving as an Acquisition Program Manager at Tinker Air Force Base, OK. In 1992, he was awarded Eagle Scout by the Birmingham Area Council. He graduated the University of Alabama in 2008 with a BS in Entrepreneurship and is pursuing a master's degree in administrative leadership at Oklahoma University.
Chris has served as a Navy air traffic controller, a network administrator in the Alabama National Guard, and as an officer in the Air Force. Prior to his current assignment as a program manager, Chris led over 250 Airmen at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, working as an aircraft maintenance officer for the MQ-1B Predator program. There he had numerous deployments, including supporting flight operations at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan.
