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Leadership Training/Mentoring Corner - April Situation
THE LEADERSHIP TRAINING/MENTORING CORNER
In the August 2025 Newsletter, we started a series called “The Leadership/Mentoring Corner” in which we posed a thought-provoking situation for you to think about and put yourself into, asking yourself, “What are your next steps?”
APRIL LEADERSHIP SITUATION
Steve, the team leader, is managing a group working on an important, time-sensitive project with a tight deadline. Two of the team’s strongest performers are in growing conflict over how to approach the work. One employee advocates for a fast, innovative strategy that could yield impressive results but carries some risk. The other prefers a careful, methodical process that minimizes errors but may slow progress.
As the disagreement continues, team meetings become tense, communication begins to break down, and other team members start taking sides. Productivity is slipping, and the deadline is approaching quickly. The leader recognizes that if the conflict is not addressed soon, it could jeopardize both the project’s success and the team’s overall cohesion.
Steve must decide how to intervene—balancing the need to resolve the conflict, maintaining respect among team members, and ensuring the project is completed effectively and on time.
What should Steve’s next steps be?
Please provide us with a brief write-up of What are Steve’s next steps? Send your write-up to Lynn Rosado at [email protected]
In our May 2026 Newsletter, a team of Silver Fox Advisors will provide responses to what he or she would have recommended to Steve that he should do based on the situation detailed above.
Silver Fox Advisors' History Corner April 2026
Silver Fox Advisor's History Corner
The Silver Fox Advisor organization is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, and over the course of the 2026 calendar year we will be sharing with you some of our history and memories in our Monthly Newsletter. Each month we will feature a brief write—up on some of the more historical highpoints of the past 40 years in this “Silver Fox Advisors’ History Corner”. We hope you find this information of interest, as you will probably know or have heard of some of the individual Silver Fox Advisors who made the organization what it is today.
Last month you learned about one of the Silver Fox Advisors’ Signature Programs, its CEO Roundtable Program. This month we want to inform our readers of another Signature Program, our Lunch & Learn Program.
Under Howard London’s Presidency and his leadership, the Silver Fox Advisors started a “Lunch and Learn Program,” with the original purpose being to showcase the Silver Fox Advisors members’ businesses and areas of expertise by featuring members as speakers. An addition purpose was to promote engagements for these individual members.
Today the “Lunch & Learn Program” is one the Silver Fox Advisors’ Signature Programs. Featured guests and other Silver Fox Advisor members are invited to speak to inform and educate the members and their guests about important and timely programs, projects and the like that affect the greater community and/or business environment.
Some of the more notable speakers at previous Lunch & Learn events included the following individuals:
Patrick Jankowski – Economist for the Greater Houston Partnership
Captain Bill Diehl – Greater Houston Port Bureau
Jay Steinfield – CEO of Blinds.com
Robert Robbins – President and CEO of the Texas Medical Center
Dr. Robert Gilmer - Sr. Economist at the Houston Federal Reserve Bank
Bonnie Dunbar – Astronaut
Dr. John Demartini – Business Coach
Leo Linbeck, III – Executive Chairman of the Linbeck Group
Joel Staff – Texas Children's Hospital
Robert Eckels – County Judge
Jim Hynes – Rockspring Capital
Brian Feldknow – CEO of Jetco
Sandhya Ganapathy - CEO of EDP Renewables North America
Chase Untermeyer - Ambassador
Andy Fastow – CFO of Enron
John Hofmeister – CEO of Shell Oil Company U.S.
Silver Fox Advisor David Neuberger serves as the Chair of our Program Committee. David and his Committee work a year ahead of time, developing program topics and scheduling renowned speakers and business leaders. If you are not a regular at these Lunch & Learn events, you are certainly missing out on some great programs that are informative with timely topics and information. You can find out the details of these Lunch & Learn Programs, as well as register, by visiting www.silverfox.org
Silver Fox Advisors are proven business leaders who advise, coach, consult, and mentor business leaders, CEO Roundtables, and entrepreneurship programs.
Silver Fox Advisors is celebrating 40 years in operation in 2026. Our members are proven business leaders who advise, consult with, and mentor other business leaders, CEO Roundtables, and entrepreneurship programs. We would love to be of assistance to you and your business. For more information, visit: www.silverfox.org or call 713.467.5900
