Today I want to invite you to add imagination to your strategic toolkit.
Here are five reasons why it’s a necessary skill for grown-ups — and especially ones who want to lead well.
Continue reading “The Imagination Imperative”Reimagination
Where I live, summer has about five weeks left on the calendar, but one week left in real life before kids head back to school and we all get back into fall routines. It’s an in-between time, and a season when my heart especially goes out to families anticipating big changes as their kids move into new stages (and parents are expected to adjust accordingly).
Continue reading “Reimagination”Your Shell is Too Small
Did you know that king crab are an invasive species? (At least in Norway). But that’s not the point of today’s post. The point of today’s post is to notice what it feels like when your shell is getting too small.
King crabs get a new shell once a year, and fishers can’t catch them during the time that one shell cracks and a new one hardens. Despite being an invasive species, they are known to be too vulnerable during that transition time and need to be protected.
Continue reading “Your Shell is Too Small”My Imagination Pit Crew
My friend Alex Hagan is fun and quirky and brilliant. I wish we lived closer together. And today, I would rather you read what he’s writing than what I’m writing. Here are a few nuggets from a recent post of his:
“A scenario isn’t a prediction, but rather a plausible piece of fiction…[and] even a plausible fiction about the future can profoundly shape your choices right here and right now.”
Continue reading “My Imagination Pit Crew”If you build it…
It’s funny what strikes you when visiting a new country.
In Norway (I’ll stop talking about it soon, I promise!), it was infrastructure.
There were tunnels and bridges everywhere, which I guess is what you need when your country is made up of mountains and islands. But these massive construction projects connected, in some cases, very tiny communities that appeared to be in the middle of nowhere.
Someone thought the investment was worth it, and it often left us shaking our heads in disbelief.
