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Dr. JOSEPH C. PICKEN   Dr. Joseph C. Picken holds an AB in Economics from Dartmouth College, an MBA in Finance and Accounting from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author (with Gregory Dess) of two books: Mission Critical: The Seven Strategic Traps that Derail Even the Smartest Companies (Irwin/McGraw Hill, 1997) and Beyond Productivity: How Leading Companies Achieve Superior Performance by Leveraging Their Human Capital (AMACOM Books, 1999), and has published numerous articles in trade and professional journals. Dr. Picken's business and consulting career spans more than 30 years. He has served as CFO of major operating units of several Fortune 500 corporations, held CEO or COO positions in two NASDAQ companies, and has been involved in two IPOs and several successful turnarounds. His industry experience includes electronics and heavy equipment manufacturing, transportation, aviation services, equipment leasing, computer hardware/software and government contracting. Since 1986, Dr. Picken has headed his own management consulting firm. Joseph C. Picken & Associates provides strategy, marketing, operations management and turnaround management consulting services to firms across a broad range of manufacturing and service industries. The firm focuses primarily on the unique challenges of emerging growth firms in high technology industries. Over the past 17 years, the firm has successfully completed more than 80 consulting engagements for more than 60 clients. Dr. Picken is a member of the faculty at the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is the Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UTD and teaches graduate courses in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategic Management and Organizational Behavior. In 1997-1998, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior/Business Policy at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, and from 1998-2000 taught as a Senior Lecturer at SMU. From 1995-1997, Dr. Picken taught in the MBA program at the University of Texas at Arlington.