“I want to dance more.”
One of the activities we enjoyed during the “Reimagine your Story” retreat I ran in southern France last week was to write down 100 things you want.
Continue reading “100 Specific Wants”Fill in Your Blank
“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”Ten-Year Time Travel
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”Animal Tracks
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”Serious Imagination
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.
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