Toni Carroll, Graniterock’s Director of Quality, is the first female in the 60-year history of California Asphalt Pavement Association to be selected for the group’s executive committee.
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Rose Ann Woolpert was born into a family business.Her father opened Orange County’s first Good Humor ice cream business in 1949 and ran it for many years with help from his wife and children.Decades later, Rose Ann married into another family business, albeit larger, when she met Bruce Woolpert and became part of the Graniterock family.
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Professor Dean Chemers, Vice-Provost and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has studied organizational leadership approaches and has a strong mastery of research and literature on the subject. In September, 1998, Bruce W. Woolpert summarized some of his thinking for Construction Update readers. What was written then holds true today.
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Having an Effective Leadership Framework.  
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Performance Measurement   
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Managers can occasionally benefit from a leadership “tune-up” The outside world may push us slightly off track. Like maintaining the precise operation of a high performance engine, organizational leaders need to stop occasionally to push the reset button. The leadership engine is running, but is it running most effectively? There are small skill-alignment tweaks to be made that greatly enhance organizational performance and help leaders to feel successful with the difficult work they do. Many of these tune-up skills are helpful for everyone in an organization. This is the first installment of a six part series of important tips for managers.
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