Why Don’t We Learn?
In 1992 Margaret Wheatley wrote a book, Leader and the New Science. I had it in my bookshelf for probably 10 to 15 years but never got around to reading it, that is, until now. I am amazed at how much she writes is what I present in my book, The Living Organization®. She describes [...]
Why Activity Alone Isn’t Enough
One of the three tenets of The Living Organization® model for creating results is the interdependence of the three energy fields of Activity, Relationship, and Context. The Context defines what the possible range of results can be. Yet, we continually lean on our predisposition to understand everything through the lens of Activity, the energy of [...]
Directors Increasingly Tarnished Image: A New Solution
TK Kerstetter, CEO of Corporate Boar Member, described how the image of Board of Directors have taken a real pounding in a recent blog . He participated in a number of conferences where he had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of directors. He wrote: “ I wish I could have conveyed to the world—or [...]
A Non-Profit Discovers Its Soulful Purpose™
This past weekend we facilitated a strategy session for the board of directors of a local non-profit. Our major objective was to create a greater level of engagement among the board (especially among its large percentage of new members) and to focus their efforts on their number one challenge—funding. Most facilitators would have focused on [...]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
A whimsical drawing and poignant saying from Brian Andreas of Storypeople ® awaits me almost every morning and I wanted to share today’s email with you. It feels especially important as we walk through today’s less than financially rosy world. I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they [...]
Who is to Blame?
We continue to hear people calling for the business community to be more accountable for their actions. Nowhere is this stronger than in the relationship business has with our environment, our planet and its resources. I don’t want to pretend this is a simple issue and one that can be easily addressed. I do not [...]
Executing an Innovative Strategy
As we discussed last week there is a difference between an Incremental Strategy and Innovation Strategy. All strategies are designed to improve performance, which means you are going to do something different than what you are doing. Whenever you establish a new strategy, you are establishing a desire to change something. Whether it is incremental [...]
Are you simply improving or innovating? Knowing makes a difference
Everyone has a strategy. Simply put a strategy is a definition of the results you want to create and an approach of how you think you will manifest those results. Why do I say everyone has a strategy? Because without a strategy, you would have no basis for making any decision. When it comes to [...]
Employ the Unemployed
I was having lunch recently with the Vice President of a former client. During the lunch she shared one of her pet peeves. “Why do we still hold onto the old belief that anyone unemployed is not as good a candidate as those that are currently employed?” Read more…
Strategic Planning is Dead – Long Live Strategy Execution
WARNING: If your environment doesn’t change much and the way you do business today is fundamentally the way you will be doing business in the next 5 – 10 years – DO NOT READ THIS! In my previous blog, I declared Strategic Planning was obsolete. The current approach for defining where an organization is going [...]
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