“I want to be surrounded by people who make me more .”
How might you finish that sentence?
Fun? Caring? Effective? Wise? Brave?
What provocative conversation would those finished sentences initiate in your organization if you dared to ask?
Continue reading “Fill in Your Blank”Specifically what do you love?
I often ask participants in workshops to share something they could talk about for hours. (Sometimes I must add the caveat that I’m not inviting them to talk about it right now — just to name it for the rest of us! And if they struggle to think of an answer, it can help to mention that it may be the thing that makes their kids roll their eyes and say, “Don’t get them started on that!”)
Continue reading “Ten-Year Time Travel”My strategy clients are often concerned that to be a strong strategist they need to be good at accurate prediction. Let me reassure you that strategic behaviour does not require you to be clairvoyant!
It does help if you can discern signals.
Even better if you can differentiate them from lagging indicators and old news.
Continue reading “Animal Tracks”I am a fan of using imagination as a strategy tool. Sounds a bit jarring, right? Rainbows and unicorns meet logic models and spreadsheets.
Not exactly.
Continue reading “Serious Imagination”“If you are brave enough often enough, you will know disappointment.” ~ Brené Brown
If you are a Canadian hockey player or fan, you are disappointed today. (And if you’re not, here’s what you need to know: the Canadian women’s and men’s hockey teams both lost in overtime to the US to win silver instead of gold medals at the Olympics. Both. Lost. In overtime. To the US. Thank you for your condolences.)
Continue reading “Processing Disappointment”