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Organizational Leaders: Living a wide-awake life

Posted by Mark L. Vincent on Jan 28, 2015 6:30:00 AM

A version of this blog post is currently running at http://www.convenenow.com/living-wide-awake-life/

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Topics: process consulting, organizational development muse, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, action-reflection, leadership and communication, The Tao of Action-Reflection, organizational wisdom, Executive Development, executive case studies

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

Posted by Mark L. Vincent on Oct 1, 2014 6:30:00 AM

A blog series we love running is the occasional "5 Questions With...."

This time we interview David Van Winkle, a Founder for Ministry Financing Group, a deeply experienced banker specializing in assisting ministry organizations in landing the best financing package possible for new initiatives and facilities. We ask him 5 Questions

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Topics: process consulting, Stewardship Development, Organizational Development. effective nonprofit ma, stewardism, Design Group International, organizational wisdom, 5 Questions With, ministry financing, capital campaign financing, church financing, David Van Winkle

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

Posted by Mark L. Vincent on Jul 14, 2014 1:00:00 PM

Let us admit that the temptation in the cartoon at right is faced by executive leaders everywhere!

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Topics: process design, Art of Agreement, executive leadership, peer-based consulting teams, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, organizational wisdom, organizational decision making, Executive Development, Executive peer-based advising

Organizational Leaders should choke down at least one epic

Posted by Mark L. Vincent on Feb 12, 2014 5:30:00 AM

Organizational leaders need to read an epic every once in a while. It doesn't have to be all that dry or joyless an expeierence. They could read Colleen McCullough's multi-volume work of historic fiction surrounding the life and times of Julius Caesar. They could work through a James Michener take on some part of the world (my favorite was Texas). Or, it could be an historical work like The history of private life, How the Scots invented the modern world, or the current one I'm reading, Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton.

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Topics: process consulting, Process consultation and design, Organizational Leadership, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, organizational wisdom

Organizational wisdom: Spelling wisdom with 4 I-s

Posted by Mark L. Vincent on Jan 18, 2013 8:30:00 AM

Spelling wisdom with 4 I-s

Actually, even though there are four of the letter I in wisdom, we just use one in the spelling. The infographic that follows outlines these wisdom elements, using a famous incident from the reign of King Solomon as an example.

We start by pointing to the fact that knowledge is not the same as wisdom and try to demonstrate how wisdom moves beyond current categories of what is known to intuitive application that goes beyond simply re-organizing data in new ways.

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Topics: process design, process consulting, organizational development consulting, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, organizational wisdom

Loop de Loop de Loop: leading toward organizational wisdom

Posted by Mark L. Vincent on Oct 20, 2011 9:44:00 AM

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Topics: process design, process consulting, organizational learning, organizational development consulting, emell vee, triple loop learning, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, Whorled Viewz, organizational wisdom