4obo Seminars and Workshops
Preparations for Interactions with TURBULENCE!
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The 4obo Coaching is closed for 2025.
Overview and Registration
for
2026
Will Open October 2025.
Identify, anticipate, prepare for and manage/lead “Unknown Unknowns” , if any!
Under Construction
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1- 4obo Seminars and Workshops Strategic Thrust
Engage
TURBULENCE
by
Customizing
Response.
Through Preparations and Practice of the:
Individual, Group, and Organizational
current
and/or
future
NEED
in
perception of future turbulence (external),
engaging TURBULENCE with strategy (internal),
supporting strategy with capability (internal),
change (internal) readiness, and
proactive precautionary (internal) measures; just in case.
For strategically managing/leading
through planning
(periodic and/or real-time)
future response
to
achieve optimal
GROWTH and/or PROFIT.
Therefore, Internal and External Transactions
must match each other.
That happens by thrusting to bridging the gap between theory and practice in strategic management through integration and differentiation of many originators, critiques, and practitioners. Ultimately achieving a match between internal behavior and external turbulence (please see Figure 1).
Figure 1*. Internal and External Interactions must match each other for potential Formidable Advantage
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* For illustration and is not exhaustive; it is missing content and interactions.
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From that perspective, all of the seminars and workshops will address the questions below as they relate to the subject matter. Resulting in customizing an approach(s) for matching internal and external interactions. Specific details are available for each seminar/workshop after the following general thrust and the 2025 general schedule.
The thrust is on answering the Fundamental Question:
How to lead and manage ourselves, each other and the entity, while interacting with turbulence for effective, efficient and equitable performance (formidable advantage)?
Preparation to answer the fundamental question is complemented by answering five questions, as follows:
1. Where are we now?
2. Where do we need to go?
3. How do we get there?
4. How do we lead and manage change?
5. Why not?
How to lead and manage ourselves, each other and the entity, while interacting with turbulence for effective, efficient and equitable performance (formidable advantage)?
Preparation to answer the fundamental question is complemented by answering five questions, as follows:
1. Where are we now?
2. Where do we need to go?
3. How do we get there?
4. How do we lead and manage change?
5. Why not?
For that purpose two categories of coaching are offered, as follows.
I. Comprehensive, Strategic Management Seminar and Workshop:
Throughout the coaching an online Q&A is available every Wednesday at:
I. Comprehensive, Strategic Management Seminar and Workshop:
- 8 online seminars, and
- 5 day workshop.
- Strategic Information (new),
- Strategic Leadership (new),
- SEC Compliance (new),
- Strategic Talent (new), and
- Strategic Change (new).
Throughout the coaching an online Q&A is available every Wednesday at:
- 9-12am and 1-5pm.
- Time zone is Pacific Standard Time (PST - Los Angeles, CA, USA).
The 8 seminars and 5-day workshop resulted from 40+ years of education, experience, and expertise (success/failure). All is summarized and entitled as the "Strategic Management Cockpit".
Learn and Apply the Strategic Management Cockpit
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The Strategic Management Cockpit resulted from integration and/or differentiation between existing and new material. Emphasis is placed on critiques, future research, and practical applicability.
Any new material is examined by team members, practitioners, and is researched in academia. Some of the material is in progress and will be presented and updated while emphasizing its practical applicability. The "Strategic Management Cockpit", contains tools, such as (listed alphabetically): - 4obo - Dispersed Portfolio Positioning 2.0 - Formidable Advantage - Preneurship - Strategic Democracy - Strategic Issues Management 2.0 - Strategic Octopus - Strategic Posture 2.0 - Roaming Rabbit - Tamer KARTS Neither financial nor any kind of advice is given. The thrust is on preparation (seminars) and practice (workshop) to customize response for engaging TURBULENCE; to show you how to strategically "look and see, perceive and understand, and decide &/or act". Tamer Tamer Salameh |
Examples
of Randomly Selected or Partial List of Existing Topics Covered (not exhaustive) |
What will you gain from the Seminars/Workshop?
Actionable Reality Examples
Reality: Environmental turbulence is unavoidable
Action to Take: Identify, anticipate, prepare for and lead/manage “unknown unknowns”
Reality: All models and tools have limits that work at certain times but fail at others e.g. - Strategic Planning, SWOT, MBO, Six Sigma, etc...
Action to Take: Lift your organization and skills beyond single dimensions such as: competitive advantage, core competence, and sticking to your knitting
Reality: When strategy and capabilities are not accurately adjusted to changes in the external business environment, profitability and/or growth is threatened and vulnerability increases
Action to Take: Accurately identify turbulence factors to promptly align your capability(s) and strategy(s) to the changing environment
Reality/Action to Take: that was the "tip of the iceberg", there is much more to cover
General Examples
Improve - Profitability, planning, positioning, and processes
How To - Increase, acquire, develop and better manage resources
Prevent - Barriers to Performance
Below are descriptions and registration forms to the comprehensive seminar and workshop.
Seminar 1. Setting the Stage: Overview of Management, Leadership: Strategic Management, Strategic Leadership, Operational vs. Strategic response, Tamer KARTS (new), Strategic Octopus (new), 4obo (new), and Environmental Turbulence Part I through the Strategic Cockpit (new)
Seminar 2. Environmental Turbulence Part II, Randomness, methods for evaluation the environment, (Strategic Myopia, Black Swan, VUCA, Scenarios, and much more) Preneurship (new), and Strategic Segmentation
Seminar 3. Vision, Mission, Objectives, Goals, Ethics, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and management models & systems i.e., crisis, chaos, sustainability, synergy
Seminar 4. Strategy – Deliberate, Emergent &/or Realized, Innovation Strategy and Marketing Strategy
Seminar 5. Capability – Capacity, Culture, Information, Manager, Mentality, Structure, Systems, and Technology
Seminar 6. Strategic Gaps(s), Periodic vs. Real time response with emphasis on Strategic Issue Management and Weak/Strong Signals Management
Seminar 7. Behavioral Support and/or Resistance to Change; individual, group, and systemic
Seminar 8. Conclusion and preparation for workshop assignments - Industry research, strategic segmentation. The workshop assignments are:
8.1. Researching industry history* (new) and producing material
8.2. Strategic Segmentation** of the firm:
- Strategic Business Area/s (SBA)
- Strategic Business Unit/s (SBU)
- Strategic Information Unit/s (SIU - new)
*Prerequisite to register for the 5-day Workshop
Seminar 2. Environmental Turbulence Part II, Randomness, methods for evaluation the environment, (Strategic Myopia, Black Swan, VUCA, Scenarios, and much more) Preneurship (new), and Strategic Segmentation
Seminar 3. Vision, Mission, Objectives, Goals, Ethics, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and management models & systems i.e., crisis, chaos, sustainability, synergy
Seminar 4. Strategy – Deliberate, Emergent &/or Realized, Innovation Strategy and Marketing Strategy
Seminar 5. Capability – Capacity, Culture, Information, Manager, Mentality, Structure, Systems, and Technology
Seminar 6. Strategic Gaps(s), Periodic vs. Real time response with emphasis on Strategic Issue Management and Weak/Strong Signals Management
Seminar 7. Behavioral Support and/or Resistance to Change; individual, group, and systemic
Seminar 8. Conclusion and preparation for workshop assignments - Industry research, strategic segmentation. The workshop assignments are:
8.1. Researching industry history* (new) and producing material
8.2. Strategic Segmentation** of the firm:
- Strategic Business Area/s (SBA)
- Strategic Business Unit/s (SBU)
- Strategic Information Unit/s (SIU - new)
*Prerequisite to register for the 5-day Workshop
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* Industry History
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** Strategic Segmentation
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Workshop Day 1
Workshop Day 2
Workshop Day 3
Workshop Day 4
Workshop Day 5
- Modes of Behavior
- Overview and setting the stage (seminars 1-7)
- Data collection and Analysis (seminar 8)
- Strategic Database 5 in General (new)
- Teamwork and Discussion
Workshop Day 2
- Industry History
- Strategic Business Area (SBA), Strategic, Business Unit (SBU), and Strategic Information Units (SIU) Presentations
- Strategic Database 5, Fields, Relations, and Records
- Teamwork and Discussion
Workshop Day 3
- Validation of SBA, SBU, and SIU
- Periodic SBU and SIU Response per SBA
- Strategic Posture 2.0 (new)
- Teamwork and Discussion
Workshop Day 4
- Real Time SBU and SIU Response per SBA
- Group formation
- Strategic Issues Management 2.0 (new)
- Teamwork and Discussion
Workshop Day 5
- Implementation & Strategic Audit
- Dispersed Portfolio Positioning 2.0 (new)
- Discussion and Conclusion
Below are links and registration forms to the new specialized seminars.
Please click for Strategic Information Seminar Details
Please click for Strategic Leadership Seminar Details
Please click for SEC Compliance Seminar Details
2-Participants - who should attend?
Participants are welcome from a broad spectrum:
1. Top Leaders and Managers, such as: Board members, C-suite, Senior Executives, those in Charge of a Major Division, and Entrepreneurs; from any industry, government, for profit, and not for profit entities
2. Students
3. Teachers
4. USA State and Federal elected and appointed individuals* will utilize a customized workshop focusing on "Strategic Democracy"
5. Curious individuals and those who aspire for Knowledge and Action
* Leadership of other countries will require customization (workshop only) that will be addressed upon request
2. Students
3. Teachers
4. USA State and Federal elected and appointed individuals* will utilize a customized workshop focusing on "Strategic Democracy"
5. Curious individuals and those who aspire for Knowledge and Action
* Leadership of other countries will require customization (workshop only) that will be addressed upon request
Previous Participants in Coaching (many) and Advising (few)
A.H. Robins Ltd., Abu Dhabi Combat Club, Abu Dhabi Country Club, Al-Reem Island, Amdahl International Management, Amen Clinics, Arab Monetary Fund, Arthur Andersen, Atilim University, BAYER, Beijing Institute of Economic Management – Beijing, Bella Crafts, Boehringer Ingelheim Zentrale, C.G. Jensen A/S - CEPSA, California State University Los Angeles, Casa Tiene Vista Vineyard, CEPSA, Changsha Municipal Foreign Affairs Center, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Computervision France, DEC Digital Equipment GMBH, Deloitte, Electro-Oil AB, Energy Labs, Ernst and Whinney, FARMITALIA C ERBA SPA, First Gulf Bank, Fuan International Group, General Electric, Gold Standard Mining Corp., Grambams, Heaviland Enterprises, Honeywell Europe, Hubei Shenli Forging Ltd, HUELS AG, Hunter Industries, IBM Brazil, IBM Mexico, IBM Nederland, IBM USA, ICI PLC, IFEN Ltd., Independent Energy Solutions, INFOTEK, INFOTEK AS, Institute for Banking Studies Kuwait, I-Shop Express, Island Batik, Jeumont-Schneider, Johnson Wax, Kitchell, KONE, Kuwait Finance House, Leal Corporation, Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, Ministerie van Volkshuisvesting, Minolta Camera Handles GMBH, MSMU, MUTATIS, Nanfang University, Nanuet Corporation, NOKIA, Oeberg ODC, Oy Rastor AB, Panzhihua Iron and Steel Institute, Papa John's Pizza, Paratech Inc., Pearl River Investment Company, Philips SPA, Sandoz AG, Prescolite Lighting Fixture Company, Private Department of HH Shiek Zayed, Renguang Commercial Industry, Royal Arabian Stables, Royal Creations, Sachs Enterprises, San Diego Community College District, Shell, Shunde Lighting Company, SongJiang Development Zone, Southwestern College, Tamouh, Tara Jewels, Texas Instruments -France, The Heritage Group, Tianjin Stainless Steel Products Factory, Tongua Petrochemical Machinery Co. Ltd, Total Training, UNI Forsikring, UNISYS Belgium, United Trading & Services, US International College of Business at AIU, US Navy, US/China Entrepreneurs Exchange Association, US-China Chamber of Commerce, VAM Pumps, Vitality Concepts, West Pak, Westinghouse, Williams & Sewell, Wilson Industries, Wuxi New District, Yanji Petrochemical Machinery Company, Zanetti, plus empirical research findings from over 2,100 companies.
3- Resources and Instructers
Resources
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Material: All material will be provided, which includes: 1- The H. Igor Ansoff Anthology Edited by Peter H. Antoniou and Patrick A. Sullivan. 2- Articles, articles in progress, and links* to articles 3- Research (links) for bridging the gap(s) between theory and practice that spans 40+ years. Some articles we do not own and we will provide the link for your perusal. 4- List of references containing books, articles, and research to build personal capability. 5- In progress work on Strategic: Information, Leadership, Talent, and Change 5- All presentation material with references 6- Certificate of Participation will be issued upon completion of the seminars. 7- Online Q&A every Wednesday:
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Team members continuously help with advice, and critique regarding the 8 Seminars and facilitation during the 5-day Workshop.
4- Main Seminar, Workshop and Registration
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2025 Registration
8 Strategic Management Seminars
$1,000.00
- Online & on demand instructions; from April 15th until end of 2025
- Online Q/A Every Wednesday at 9-12am, and 1-5pm until end of 2025
- Time zone is Pacific Standard Time (PST - Los Angeles, CA, USA)
- Registration deadline is August 30, 2025
Please note: This "8 Strategic Management Seminars" is required before registering for the "5-day Strategic Management Workshop" - details will be emailed and provided in CANVAS.
Strategic Management Workshop
$15,000.00
Strategic Management Workshop (5 Days) - 2025
Prerequisite: "8 Strategic Management Seminars"
Online Q&A Every Wednesday at 9-12 am. and 1-5pm. (PST).
Offered five times for 2025 (Monday - Friday), as follows:
- From July 21 - 25.
- From August 25 - 31.
- From September 22 - 26.
- From October 20 - 24.
- From November 24-28.
5-Day Strategic Management workshop
4obo = For (4) Open Business Organization
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4- Financial Support
Phone: +1(858) 733-8888 Please leave a Message
Best - Email: [email protected]
We finance based on:
1- Need: 10% of participants will be complementary (8 Seminars only).
2- Loan: 30% down and 1 year no interest payments, as follows:
- Full price only, 8 seminars = $1,000 down and $167 per month for 12 month.
- Full price only, 5-day workshop = $3,000 down and $500 per month for 12 month.
Please Contact us via above email for details.
1- Need: 10% of participants will be complementary (8 Seminars only).
2- Loan: 30% down and 1 year no interest payments, as follows:
- Full price only, 8 seminars = $1,000 down and $167 per month for 12 month.
- Full price only, 5-day workshop = $3,000 down and $500 per month for 12 month.
Please Contact us via above email for details.
