The Third Turn

Missing the Handoff

Episode 15 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

The Third Turn Leader and Charitable Giving: Conversation with Kate Frillmann

The Grateful Penitent

Episode 14 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

Keep learning! Third Turn Leaders and New Donors: a conversation with Chris Barlow

Damage in the Wake of Ego

Episode 13 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

A Maestro Example

Federal-level Crazy

Episode 12 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

The Strength of My Voice

Time, Money, and Associational Systems

Episode 11 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

Time is money. Money is time.

A Bit About Logos

Episode 10 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

What do we have here?

Woulda Shoulda Coulda

Episode 9 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

Saying Farewell to Convene

Guardrails for Maestro-level leader Conversations

Episodes 7 & 8 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

The Bildung Rose

1% of leaders

Episode 6 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

Thinking Quickly and Thoroughly

Next Turn -- Wrong Person

Episode 5 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

A Leadership Theory of Everything

Maestro-level leaders FAQ

Episode 4 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

Current and Future Value

Navigating the spaces between those three turns

Episode 3 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

Living fully into your turn

Maestro-level Leaders is Launched

Episode 2 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

Flamingo-like boards

The Third Turn of the Executive Leader

Episode 1 -- Third Turn Podcast Recap

The Second Turn of the Executive Leader

The First Turn of the Executive Leader

Bridging the chasm between faith and responsibility

Maestro-level Leaders: the Third Turn

Disciplining the Reactions of Self: Baseline Questions

Gig workers in this old and brave new world

How do you time travel?

Antifragile and the 29ers

On the uses of difficulty

Scene-ario planning: Hearing from some experts

Pandemic time and new business habits.

Data damaged: with apologies to the Apostle Paul

It's normal for the house to be falling down

Zoom or trauma?

Muscles old and new

Multi-scenario Planning: not just in emergencies

Jubilee! Opportunity is knocking

Elephant Man

Opportunities/Challenges: Calculating the Value

An executive leader development scaffolding

Traumatic Interference

homogeneity, schomogeneity

Process AND Product

"Walking beside my dying wife" is released

Understand your future value...

Lead from where you ARE

Price Fixing

You Can Care!

Act first or think first? Which is you? Which is your organization?

Misunderstood = Opportunity

Jack Bogle - a long-sighted examplar

Long-sight

Frame, then shhhh.

Do you have 5 years of patience?

Process vs Product revisited

A simpler path to innovation

Culture Eats Strategy

Business and the NFL

Management/Leadership Distinction

Scapegoating

Iteration

A new and better builder generation?

One-page planning

The Steward Leader and the Challenge of Nontraditional Funding

The Steward Leader Needs Deep Community

Millennials and Manufacturing: a Convene conversation.

Peer-based advising. Should you take a pass?

Managing Polarities: the basics

CLA - celebrating 40 years

A mission project form letter (I am happy to offer this service)

Leaders drive organizational culture: reflections above the Mediterranean

Legacy trumps history

Respite and Renewed Focus

Notes on a Resource: The Objective Leader

Opening up the organizational can: Organizational design should continue to evolve

A leader's lament

Thank you Sepp Blatter - putting succession front and center

Loving leaders into their steward vocation

Inbound marketing as servant, not master

Decision Making Speed of the Executive Leader

An excerpt from "The Selfless Leader:" Leading for Others

An excerpt from "The Selfless Leader:" A tool for selfless leadership

An excerpt from "The Selfless Leader:" Courage to Live and Lead Selflessly

An excerpt from "The Selfless Leader:" Self-Aware

The Selfless Leader: excerpts from Scott Rodin

Dan Busby's thoughts on The Selfless Leader

Notes on a Resource: The Tao of Twitter

An excerpt from the e-book "The Selfless Leader"

Organizational Leadership and Reflective Conversation

An organizational leader's sphere of influence: further up and further back

Further thoughts on The Golden Rule and Franchising

"The Selfless Leader" is released this week.

An ode to money

The Golden Rule and Franchising

Notes on a Resource: HP Envy X2

But franchising seemed so simple!

Getting to third with the triple bottom line

Notes on a Resource: Necessary Endings

Organizational Leaders: Living a wide-awake life

A new stewardship direction: towards out of the box thinking

Notes on a Resource: To Wit

A new leadership mentoring program gets underway

Leadership Fable: wise owl meets young buck

What's your philosophy on fundraising?

Fear, inattention and overwhelming complexity: 3 common executive leader dynamics.

Discernment, decision rules and fragmentation: frustration for organizational leaders

Notes on a Resource: The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth

There is nothing like a sales presentation to deepen my commitment to process consulting

Resources for boards and decision-making

Is the traditional concept of “career” still useful? If not, then what?

Notes on a Resource: Logitech Multi-Device Keyboard

What is a platform? Yes, organizational development professionals need one!

What are the factors in personal design?

Personal vs. Corporate Mission: getting the linkage in sync

“Work”, “True Calling”, “Vocation” and “Personal Design”…?

Notes on a Resource: The Enneagram-A Christian Perspective

5 Questions With ....David Van Winkle of Ministry Financing Group

Turning job frustration into vocational clarity.

Rut or Groove? A simple image for organizational and leadership development

The first 90 Days ain't just when you start, they are whenever you change.

International enterprise: Do you know your fundamentalisms?

Notes on a Resource: Blink-the power of thinking without thinking

Unfortunately Fortunate: Does organizational leadership connect to human flourishing?

Lorie Vincent speaks on "fighting disease not death"

Notes on a Resource: Promote Yourself-The New Rules for Career Success

Successful Succession: continuous organizational leadership

Decluttering the company: Design Group International

Arianna Huffington learned to "Thrive." Can CEOs learn this lesson sooner?

Giving the Design Group International CEO talk

Notes on a Resource: Personality Testing in the Hiring Process

CEO conversations: connecting money with time.

CEO time & task management: writing the don't do list

Notes on a Resource: EveryThink

Celebrating a lady: 30 years with Lorie Vincent

Principles for reasoned conversation. Can such an organizational leader be found?

A 4th of July blessing for organizational leaders

The Art of Agreement: Making Long-Term Decisions

Notes on a Resource: Voice on the Go

CEO peer-based advising. The value.

Organizational Leaders Who Give Life

Organizational Leaders: A Need to Embrace Imprecision

Organizational Leaders: Responses to employee grief, stress and burnout

The agony and ecstasy of the short mission statement

Notes on a Resource: Eleven Rings-the soul of success

When the Executive Leader comes into their own

Simple Living CEO Style

Notes on a Resource: CloudMagic

Notes on a Resource: The Good Listener

CEO peer-based advising -- engaging the curiosity drive

Transparency: A Hard Word for Organizational Leaders

Notes on a Resource: CEO Logic - How to Think and Act Like a Chief Executive

You need to be interested. Your organization deserves an engaged leader!

Choosing and using your leadership theory

Notes on a Resource: Hilton Grand Vacations

Can an an executive leader love an organization?

3 great ladies in my life: an organizational leader's reflection

Notes on a Resource: Bits & Pieces

5 Questions With . . . John Di Frances

The Process Consultant's Creed

Notes on a Resource: Tales from the Top

Speaking Fundamentals for Organizational Leaders

The Audacity of Steward Leadership

Notes on a Resource: Invisibilify

The value proposition of executive peer-based advising.

Building leadership capacity for excellence. It doesn't happen by osmosis!

Notes on a Resource: Reclaiming the Ethical High Ground

Insights from CEO peer-based advising

Public Communication Regarding Money: The Steward Leader

Notes on a Resource: The HubSpot Blog

Conventional versus Collaborative Selling

An endorsement for executive peer-based advising

Notes on a Resource: Flawless Consulting

A snake in the house -- an organizational leader becomes more antifragile

10 Leadership Development Initiatives That Work

Notes on a Resource: Marketplace Chaplains

3 Critical Components of Leadership Development

4 Levels of Transitional Leadership

Notes on a Resource: Jawbone UP

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