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”Who’s the You?
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?”New Levels of the Same Game
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.” ~ Carl Jung
Continue reading “New Levels of the Same Game”Know the Game You’re Playing
As I type this, it’s the first day back to work after a couple of glorious weeks of family time. And although a quieter house and cooking for fewer people is easier, I wasn’t yet craving getting back into routine. (Having to brush the snow off my car both before and after my 6 a.m. gym class did not improve my mood this morning!)
Continue reading “Know the Game You’re Playing”Middle Distance
I’m no runner, but I’m told that the middle-distance runs are hardest — the ones where you need to push yourself to maintain a pace that is slower than a sprint but faster than a marathon.
Imagination and strategy both sit at that distance for me, and it’s what makes them exciting and difficult.
For strategy, we tend to look too short term.
For imagination, too long.