I work with a lot of nonprofit Boards of Directors.
I’m noticing that the ones I enjoy the most are the Boards who understand their role primarily as advancing the organization’s mission more than advancing the organization’s existence.
Continue reading “Collective Missions”At a leadership camp in high school, we played a game called “Win as much as you can.” The punchline of the experience (that obviously made an impact, because I’m telling you about it 40 years later!) was that the “you” was plural, not singular. The winners were a team, not an individual — much to the disappointment of the individuals who thought they’d been successful in their solitary pursuit of the victory.
Continue reading “Who’s the You?”As I write this entry, it is about nine hours after the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the LA Dodgers in the 11th inning of seventh game of the World Series.
I’m a Blue Jays fan. Not a hop on the bandwagon, start-paying-attention-in-October fan, but a watch most games and know every player’s name by their faces fan — have been for years. Many a sweater has been knit cheering on these boys.
Continue reading “Go Jays, Even Today”Many of you will know that I am on a mission to avoid oblivious facilitation (or coaching, or leading or…). I have not found a word that means precisely the opposite of “oblivious” — I’d always rather be for something than against it — but for now, I’m anti-obliviousness.
I therefore can’t ignore that I am writing this post during an incredibly uncertain and destabilizing time in global affairs, and it seems oblivious of me not to acknowledge it. So, for this final installment of “Strategy Sightings” (for now), with some reluctance, I’m diving right in.
Continue reading “Strategy Sightings, Episode Four”Strategic planning is not just for corporations—lots of my one-on-one coaching work feels like strategy-building for individuals too. And that’s a space I’m curious about—as group activities that also apply to individuals, and vice versa.
So over the next few weeks, I’m going to write about what strategic planning is and isn’t, and I’d invite you to view it through both an individual and collective lens, as I suspect it will apply to both.
Continue reading “Strategic Leadership”