Jeff Albert This is Me

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1. 1. Learning From History

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   Published on: 1/27/2006   Last Visited: 8/3/2007

   (October 02, 2000) On a warm spring day earlier this year, Jeff Albert came from Fort Wayne, Ind., to walk around the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa.
   
   Albert says he was thinking about Col.
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   Historians say that unit's courage and commitment to its mission was the turning point of the war," Albert says.
   
   It was a history lesson that Albert says has affected his life today. "I learned that no matter what our title or station in the organization, we can greatly impact the outcome by committing to our objectives and dutifully carrying them out," says Albert, second vice president and director of enterprise technology services at Philadelphia-based Lincoln Financial Group.
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   I've been to management and leadership classes, and they tend to be technique-focused," says Albert.
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   The program has also had a positive impact on the IT organization at Lincoln, according to Albert and Kern.
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   We're building that into our IT processes so that we stay focused on the needs of our user community," says Albert.
   
   A member of the first forum class, Albert now volunteers as a program facilitator. His continuing involvement has helped him build the mentoring skills that he applies to his own staff members.
   
   "The learning trickles into your own performance and, ideally, improves the performance of the organization," he says.