One of the reasons meetings become such wastes of time and money is that leaders, managers, and meeting facilitators repeatedly fail to frame the context. Another is that leaders and managers dominate the conversation and fail to assume a sincere listening posture.
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Topics: leading organizational change, Organizational Transformation, Design Group International, Mark L. Vincent, executive learning, executive leadership, Change Management, identifying adaptive change, process design, process chaplaincy
For some time now we’ve been making a distinction between Process and Product when it comes to consulting:
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How does one lead without micromanaging, most especially when there is such high risk of liability/failure/ethical compromise? What distinction can be drawn, really, between that of Management and Leadership, when it comes to function?
Topics: society for process consulting, Executive peer-based advising, executive leader development, Mark L. Vincent, Design Group International, Process Consultation, leadership communication
Recent work with a client led to developing these thoughts on the act of scapegoating.
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The generation that built our super highways, university campuses, and hospital complexes also populated and built many church houses, along with large educational wings, church camps, private school and numerous global mission and relief agencies.
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A recent privilege to work with an organization trying to move their strategic efforts forward resulted in the following note when we sent them the tightly distilled, one-page version of their plan (excerpted and adapted to the purposes of this blog post):
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The following is a presentation made this past week at the Christian Leadership Alliance's Conference in Dallas, TX. It was part of a summit on Steward Leadership. Portions of what you will find below include input from summit participants.
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Over the years, we've turned, repeatedly, to the subject of Steward Leadership, especially as articulated in Scott Rodin's book on the Steward Leader. I've been privileged to support this work through some writing contributions to other titles:
Topics: stewardism, steward leader, it begins with design, Design Group International, Matthew Thomas, Mark L. Vincent, process consulting, organizational development muse, David Van Winkle
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