The woman I’m fortunate to call my wife went for a walk with me in a city that lies along a lakeshore. We came across this quote from Abraham Lincoln in a speech to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society before being elected president.
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Act first or think first? Which is you? Which is your organization?
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Topics: strategic planning, leadership coaching, business, deep dive
Topics: strategic planning, leadership coaching, business, deep dive
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One of the reasons meetings become such wastes of time and money is that leaders, managers, and meeting facilitators repeatedly fail to frame the context. Another is that leaders and managers dominate the conversation and fail to assume a sincere listening posture.
Topics: strategic planning, leadership coaching, business, deep dive, nonprofit
Topics: leadership coaching, business
For some time now we’ve been making a distinction between Process and Product when it comes to consulting:
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There is some debate as to whether the late Peter Drucker actually ever said: “culture will eat strategy for breakfast, every time.” The phrase does not appear in any of the 35+ books he wrote. In any case, the phrase has become an oft-cited expression in the organizational change literature.
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