A version of this blog post is currently running at http://www.convenenow.com/living-wide-awake-life/
A version of this blog post is currently running at http://www.convenenow.com/living-wide-awake-life/
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
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
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
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 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.
Topics: process consulting, Process consultation and design, Organizational Leadership, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, organizational wisdom
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.
Topics: process design, process consulting, organizational development consulting, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, organizational wisdom
