What makes your heart jump? Where do you turn for a jolt of fun? Consider it’s more than a lark. It’s a clue to your passion. And passion is truly what makes the world go ’round! In one of my first large-scale change initiatives at the World Bank, we quickly realized that passion would make […]
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Logjams, obstacles, bottlenecks… here’s what they all have in common and the best way to handle them.
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Nothing is certain, though we like to pretend it is so. There are some things we count on: the sun coming up tomorrow, our loved ones support, our own abilities. Yet, even these can sometimes feel in flux and when they do, it rocks our world. So, where do we turn for support? You never
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There can be multiple perspectives to every dilemma, and you better learn how to take them all into account or you risk undermining your effectiveness!
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Mindful meditation and the practice of mindfulness: bringing the attention back over and over to the same thought, image or sensation as a way of practicing one-pointed attentiveness. Through rigorous research, the benefits of mindfulness are significant on multiple fronts. From physical and mental pain management to resilience, which is our ability to bounce back
Strategic Foresight is the ability to spot emerging trends before they crest and exploiting them for competitive advantage. I invite you to participate now, March-July 2017, in a conversation I am having with association leaders on how to apply this capability to their organizations. If interested, drop me a line.
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When I was in college, I had a saying, “When love talks, write it down.” I have long believed that love is the center and source of the universe, so this was my shorthand for documenting insights when they struck. Why? Because I found that inspiration struck often enough that I could use it to
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In this short video I lay out the basics of my framework for standing up Strategic Foresight in an association.
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I did a presentation for the Landscape Architecture Foundation (http://lafoundation.org/) on Friday morning. Think of landscape architecture as any human designed aspect of our environment, from parks that are designed to stimulate children and create community to water flow around constructions engineered for optimized ecological impact. There is so much that landscape architects contribute to
It’s important to meet face to face with the people who are doing today what you want to do tomorrow. There is no replacement.
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