...why...would I want to condemn a person
to a
this-world immortality with their
broken
and aging body?
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...why...would I want to condemn a person
to a
this-world immortality with their
broken
and aging body?
|
Topics: Suffering, Lorie L. Vincent, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, leiomyosarcoma, lorie vincent, Leadership courage
My family story is one of holding our household together through my wife's long battle with leiomyosarcoma. Eighteen occurrences in sixteen years is a lot for anyone. We've made it this far, raising our children and now enjoying being grandparents, while building Design Group International, completing research projects related to graduate education, and finding ways to enjoy life, however constricted it might feel.
Topics: process design, process consulting, becoming a steward leader, executive coaching, stewardship based leadership, Convene, peer-based consulting teams, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, steward leadership, leiomyosarcoma, Executive Development, Peer-based advising, peer-based executive teams, Executive peer-based advising
Topics: Lorie L. Vincent, Design Group International, leiomyosarcoma, fighting disease not death, employee suffering
Topics: organizational development consulting, Lorie L. Vincent, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, leiomyosarcoma
Our book Fighting Disease Not Death: Finding a Way Through Lifelong Struggle is being widely read. Lorie has been speaking at a number of churches (about once monthly is what she feels she can manage), and will speak next at First Baptist Beloit, Wisconsin on Sunday 19, February. Thank you to everyone who has supported this effort!
Topics: Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, leiomyosarcoma, lorie vincent, fighting disease not death, unproductive meetings
Just when you think you've witnessed all the craziness in the fundraising world, another goofy incident pops up. If I did not spend so much time writing and speaking on the subject I would probably just roll my eyes, but because I am able to see just how much one act of silliness can harm future opportunity I can't pass up the occasion to keep teaching.
Topics: process design, organizational development consulting, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, organizational design, Fundraising, leiomyosarcoma, fighting disease not death
Three questions keep coming now that the book Fighting Disease, Not Death: Finding a Way Through Lifelong Struggle is available. We decided to post our responses here as a means to answer them more readily.
Topics: Lorie L. Vincent, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, mark vincent, the ministry of development, leiomyosarcoma, lorie vincent
Topics: Outliers, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, Whorled Viewz, medical justice, standardized protocols, leiomyosarcoma
My wife Lorie and I are often told that we have many things going on. Apparently we are perceived as busy people. That does not match our self perception. Lorie’s long battle with cancer has robbed us of so much of our time and diminished so many plans and forced us into such long waiting periods, that any healthy periods become crammed with buying groceries, catching up on yard work, staying abreast of our professions and paying our bills. We appear busy around others simply because so much time is given to forced stases. It appears everyone is at least partially right!
Perceptions are so easily misconstrued or only partially developed. A virtuous leader must understand this and commit to long and patient communication if she or he wants common and useful perceptions to form. Too many persons in leadership roles decide instead to embrace the ease of manipulating the half-formed reactions of people to their own, selfish ends.
Topics: leiomyosarcoma, lorie vincent, virtuous leader
Topics: non anxious, organizational knot, organizational mountain, leiomyosarcoma
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