RETIREMENT ® Develop a RED ZONE Team Ego the Five Years Before and Five Years After You Retire
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Vol. 2 | Issue 2 | Q2 2007 ARE YOU IN THE RETIREMENT ® Develop a RED ZONE Team Ego The five years before and five years after you retire. At Prudential, we call it The Retirement Red Zone.® It’s a time when decisions about your retirement assets matter more. And there’s less room for error. and WIN! Prudential’s free Retirement Red Zone guide will help you start thinking about the critical issues facing you and your retirement savings—and how you can make today’s annuities an effective part of your Retirement Red Zone strategy. Conquer Team DYSFUNCTION www.RetirementRedZone.com Working Well with Others: The Most Important Skill to Master RETIREMENT PL ANS ANNUITIES INSURANCE INVESTMENTS REAL ESTATE Team Over Me Investors should consider the contract and the underlying portfolios' investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. 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Q2 2007 OPPORTUNITY | 1 Opportunity Magazine Q2 2007 page 30 Team by Patrick Lencioni ONTENTS 17 What Matters – RAISING UP LEADERSC by Rich !awley !e Five Keys to Unlocking Leadership Potential Departments 19 Lead from the Front – The Pursuit of Excellence by Ed Mylett Contributors 5 Change Your Life and Your Career by Dedicating Yourself to Greatness Every Day From the President 7 23 Giving Back – ONE CHILD AT A TIME In Brief 9 X uan & Hoa Nguyen and !eir Teammates Help Underprivileged Children in Opportunity Asks 10 Southeast Asia Build a Brighter Future Washington Watch 12 27 No Family Left Behind® – A HELPING HAND Quotables 13 Rich Cunningham Went Home to Help the People He Grew Up with Get a Tools of the Trade 15 Financial Leg Up Inspired Reads 16 44 Dreams Realized – HOME SWEET HOME Carl & Donna Meldrum Built a Dream 20 Years in the Making 47 Home Team – SIDE BY SIDE CHAMPIONS Liz & Rudy Zetazate Share a Marriage, a Business and a Passion for Helping SVC Promotions 50 Families FVC Promotions 58 CEO MD Promotions 59 – Found a Career I Love and How I … EMD Promotions 61 64 M ade My Mother Proud SMD Promotions 61 Yvonne Mei Changed Her Life when She Changed Her Career QMD Promotions 61 $100,000 Ring Earners 63 Q2 2007 OPPORTUNITY | 3 2 | OPPORTUNITY Q2 2007 OPPORTUNITY ONTRIBUTORS FEATURES 3 6 C Byron Anderson is the perfect Washington insider to author Opportunity’s “Washington Watch” column (see “New Congress Pursuing Ambitious Agenda,” pg. 12). Byron joined AEGON in July 2006 as Assistant Director of Federal Government Relations in Washington, ONE TEAM, D.C. where he advocates for AEGON before the U.S. Congress and the various federal agen- cies with financial services oversight. Previously, Byron served in the Bush Administration ONE DREAM where he managed the Department of Agriculture’s Federal Crop Insurance Program. He has been engaged in government relations for 30 years while working for the U.S. Congress, trade How to Build Team associations, and other insurers. He and his wife, Mary, live in Chevy Chase, Md. Their daughter is a high school senior Ego and Move from and their son is a senior in college. 33 Being Good to Great One of the things John Christensen does for a living is help people get fishy. An interna- tionally recognized filmmaker, best-selling author and CEO of Charthouse Learning, a leading film and training company, John and his team captured the passion and engagement of a TEAM !e only basketball coach to local Seattle fish market and developed a program to help individuals and businesses boost morale, increase productivity and have fun in a film called FISH!. The film quickly became a lead three separate teams worldwide phenomenon and a best-selling book. John discusses his teamwork philosophy OVER to the NCAA Final Four, and his favorite fish in this quarter’s “Opportunity Asks,” feature (pg. 10). Coach Rick Pitino reveals Through his previous experience as a real estate broker and his current career how to build a winning team as a World Financial Group Senior Vice Chairman (SVC), Jun Dela Cruz knows that being a servant leader ME is the key to having a successful team (see “Team Over Me: Why Being a Servant Leader Works,” pg. 33). by developing a Jun lives in Brea, Calif. with his wife, Joyce, and his four children, Justin, Jason, Jersey Why Being a Servant group mindset. and Jaslyn. Leader Works An authority on teamwork, Patrick Lencioni’s blockbuster The Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be a fixture on The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times best- seller lists. The Dysfunctions model for teamwork has been embraced by a great variety of organizations, ranging from the NFL to the Blue Man Group to the 82nd Airborne to local schools and 40 churches. Now he shares how to spot dysfunction and what to do about it with Opportunity’s readers (see “Conquer Team Dysfunction”, pg. 30). WORKING WELL EVC Ed Mylett knows a thing or two about leading from the front. Author of this quarter’s leadership column on dedicating yourself to greatness every day, (see “In Pursuit of Excel- WITH OTHERS lence,” pg. 19), Mylett is a member of the WFG Supervisory Board, the WFG Chairman’s Council and the WFG Millionaire Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Kristianna, live in Chino WFG SVC Master Teamwork to Hills, Calif., with their son, Max, and daughter, Bella. Jun Dela Cruz Master Success If you want to know how to get your team to bring its A-game, just shares his “9 Cs” of Some of the most successful executives have ask Rick Pitino. One of basketball’s most well-known and success- ful coaches, Pitino remains the only coach to take three different schools (Providence, Kentucky servant leadership and one thing in common – they all work well as and Louisville) to the NCAA Final Four, winning the championship with the University of Kentucky why he believes the most part of a team.