My first wife Lorie and I were often told that we had many things going on. Apparently, some perceived us as busy people.
My first wife Lorie and I were often told that we had many things going on. Apparently, some perceived us as busy people.
Topics: process consulting, Lorie L. Vincent, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, leiomyosarcoma, Depth Perception, Maestro-level Leaders, The Third Turn, The Third Turn Podcast, Kristin Evenson
I wrote this blog post 14 years ago -- long before we knew the word COVID. We were in the middle of my first wife Lorie's cancer battle at the time. The perspective we struggled to gain through her suffering seems even more relevant today. Our current moment made it seem good to update and republish it.
Topics: Lorie L. Vincent, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, leiomyosarcoma, Maestro-level Leaders, The Third Turn, The Third Turn Podcast, Future Value, Kristin Evenson, third turn blog
We've been given many items to grieve during these pandemic years. We aren't going to grovel in them, but let's do notice that groveling has a sister called denial. Either way the grief we carry begins to have its way, eating at us greater than we need to because we can't talk about it at all or because we can't stop thinking of it.
Topics: Lorie L. Vincent, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, leiomyosarcoma, Maestro-level Leaders, The Third Turn Podcast, Kristin Evenson
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...why...would I want to condemn a person
to a
this-world immortality with their
broken
and aging body?
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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
