Tag: shared vision
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The Process of Dialogue: Creating Effective Communication
Consider any complex, potentially volatile issue — Arab-Israeli relations; the problems between the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; the U.S. deficit, healthcare costs, or labor/management…
Stewardship: A New Employment Covenant
The latest casualty of the changes sweeping through corporate America is the lifetime employment contract — the implicit agreement that provided employees with economic…
Trust As A Systemic Structure in Our Organizations
Trust is a subject close to many people’s hearts. Whenever I make presentations on this subject, I never cease to be amazed by the…
The Learning Family: Bringing the Five Disciplines Home
Roger and his wife June had been struggling with differing views about how to bring up their children. Recently, Roger attended a program about…
Becoming Unstuck: Leadership Lessons from Hindu Philosophy
The management of knowledge is increasingly understood as perhaps the most important aspect of a leader’s work. Observing, eliciting, listening, understanding, analyzing, interpreting, and…
The Journey to Z: Realizing the Potential of an Organization
Read the business media today and you’ll see that organizations of all types, from all sectors, are in deep trouble. There are many reasons…
Changing Our Organizations Through the Power of Story
Storytelling has been around since the dawn of civilization (in fact, as we’ll see, it may have been the first glimmer of light at…
Small Company Big Impact! Powerfully Engaging Your Employees to Change the World
How can a small company create the focus and capabilities to have a significant impact in the world? Three years ago, McCarroll Marketing, a…
Mobilizing a Values-Based Culture in a Nonprofit Setting
In 2008, two mature domestic abuse agencies merged to form Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse in Tucson, Arizona. The Emerge! staff and board envisioned…
Picture This: Using Learning Pictures to Create Shared Mindset
When interviewed recently about the making of the 1971 film “Duel,” Steven Spielberg spoke about the impossibly tight schedule that the studio had imposed…