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How tuned in is your organization? I asked a friend who had just moved to a new organization, “How’s the new reality?” He said, “To borrow a phrase from Leonard Sweet, I live in the Google Era, but my work environment is Gutenberg Era.” Makes you think, doesn’t it? How many of our organizations are operating [...] I don’t know about you…but I love the creativity of Duarte Designs. Nancy Duarte and her team have created a consistent stream of very creative stuff for a long time. Her book, slide:ology, is a really helpful part of my thinking when I have a presentation to do. The Duarte Design blog is a [...] One of the blogs I read almost everyday is Gaping Void by Hugh MacLeod. Word of warning…sometimes often profane. At the same time, Hugh’s insight is very keen. Not every post or cartoon is dead on, but a lot of them are. There are definitely times when you just have to nod your head. There [...] “To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing.” That line seems like a no-brainer. Obvious. And yet, when I heard Craig Groeschel say that at Willow’s Leadership Summit last year I scrambled to write it down and then had trouble thinking about anything else for the rest [...] How does arriving where you’ve already been sound? Depends I guess. If you like where you’ve been, you might want to go there again. After all, there are places we’ve been that we love going back to. At the same time, as a metaphor for vision…most of us are dreaming of arriving somewhere we’ve never [...] Keeping an eye on the effectiveness of strategy is essential. Clarifying what a win is and launching strategic steps designed to produce that win are essential to organizational success. Evaluating effectiveness is just as important. Have you ever slowed down long enough to evaluate whether your strategy is actually working? Most organizations never really get around [...] One of the key concepts in Roger Martin’s The Design of Business is the notion that the pursuit of reliable or predictable results keeps many organizations from the kind of exploration that pursues the next opportunity (or the more current opportunity). This is big for all of us, but to really catch the significance you [...] One of the highlights of Drive ‘08 was Andy Stanley’s talk, Random Thoughts On Leadership. I’ve referenced it before and it is a great talk. Really one of those talks that the audio hangs in the consciousness for years. The basic gist was that Andy took 5 memorable quotes that had affected his thinking and [...] In developing a design-thinking toolbox, one skill that must be added is abductive thinking. First, I know. I had to add the term to my dictionary. A concept introduced by Charles Sanders Pierce in the twentieth century, here’s the idea: “It is not possible to prove any new thought, concept, or idea in advance; all new [...] I don’t know about you, but I am a sucker for a beautiful phrase. I tripped across this one while working my way through Change by Design. “A team that understands what is happening will not feel bound to take the next logical step along an ultimately unproductive path (p. 17).” What [...] |
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