Jack Haffey & Associates – New Montana Firm Aims to Inspire Organizational Excellence

Jack Haffey, former Montana Power Company officer and state senator, has opened a consulting practice focused on helping organizations to see their real potential and achieve it.

Haffey said his decision to embark on this venture was driven by an awareness that a void exists in this aspect of the lives of organizations.

“We of course know that strategic planning, leadership and organizational excellence consultants have been around for decades, from the large global firms like McKinsey, Booz, Allen and Accenture to numerous smaller firms to boutique, special focus consulting firms. But the void still exists. To date, few have really offered the kind of deep, focused, in-the-moment-introspective yet longer-term value maximization potential that Jack Haffey & Associates http://www.jackhaffey.com now brings to organizations large and small.”

“While some meaningful technical and strategic advice has long been part of the service package of many firms, few have squarely engaged and helped unveil the unique potential of their clients,” Haffey said in announcing the start-up.

“There is a sad but avoidable cost that is being incurred because of the failure to unveil this potential ,” he said.

“Why? Because the consulting sector and organizations have been and still are hamstrung by an outdated mindset – and associated leadership and cultural characteristics.

“A truly puzzling irony is that in the last 30 years the best research has given us persuasive empirical and qualitative proof that we can do significantly better, as organizations and societies. Yet only a small percentage (of organizations and leaders) have shown they get it.”

There are many critical flaws in this century old, dominant mindset, Haffey said.

“Probably the most important is the almost unfathomable underuse of women as leaders and co-equals in the work of organizations. This flaw rests on the failure to truly understand the complementary leadership, cultural and mind predispositions that women and men can bring to organizations. There are other serious flaws as well.”

Wall Street’s institutional failure to appreciate that its own behavior directly and indirectly causes (for profit) organizations to use this outdated mindset is both an additional flaw and a symptom that hinders a collective ability to address this mindset problem, Haffey said.

“Wall Street, with other agents, creates symptoms that we attempt to treat, distracting us from the core problem. Many other mind-controlling symptoms add to our collective distraction,” he said.

The Good News? It Can And Will Be Remarkably Easy To Correct.

“The result of all this harmful mindset-based behavior has been an absolute micro and macro-failure to maximize the long term value of organizations and of societies. Maximizing this value is the very purpose of organizational existence, as Adam Smith in the late 1700s and Milton Friedman in the second half of the 1900s argued was axiomatically job No. 1.

“It is of course true that some organizations, including some large corporations, have created great value over the years and served societies well. Some have even appeared to maximize their own long term value. And, some consultants have provided enlightened advice. The critical failure, even in these best cases, is the opportunity cost that has come from the broad failure of these and almost all organizations to truly maximize their own long term value.”

“The imperative, then, is to drop this bad mindset and replace it with a ‘new millennium’ mindset,” Haffey said.

What Does Jack Haffey & Associates Do Differently?

“We listen, learn and, together with organizations, establish a clear and totally embraceable new mindset – a mindset that has precisely the focus that will ensure their long term value maximization. We are excited and grateful to bring this mindset and this set of leadership and cultural characteristics to organizations. It is a bit like having a special recipe or formula, one that appears to be somewhat secret but should not be, and wanting to share it and advocate it far and wide. Of course, we bring this perspective and calling to the market with both humility and grateful pride, and we ourselves continue to learn every day.”

The firm’s web site provides a concise but general overview of its purpose, process and outcome commitments. To discover and explore how your organization can benefit from this unique process, visit http://www.jackhaffey.com .

Who is Jack Haffey?

Jack’ professional experience includes 30 years with the Montana Power Company, 15 as a corporate officer including six as its executive vice-president and COO.

He was also a senator in the Montana state senate for eight years and taught and coached at the high school level in Anaconda, Montana.

Jack was CEO of a biotechnology firm for one year, and he provided voluntary strategic advice to the Pacific Institute (TPI), http://www.thepacificinstitute.com , in Seattle, Washington.

He has served on several boards, including the Board of Trustees of Carroll College, http://www.carroll.edu , and currently serves on the boards of Special Olympics of Montana (SOMT), http://www.somt.org , Community Hospital of Anaconda, Montana, http://www.communityhospitalofanaconda.org , and AWARE, Inc., http://www.aware-inc.org .

Haffey has a B. A. in Math from Carroll College, an MBA from Notre Dame University and he completed the Advanced Management ( AMP ) at Harvard University.

Jack Haffey

2101 Garfield St.

Anaconda, Montana 59711

406-563-7086

406-560-2128, mobile

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