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So what? It’s a bit overwhelming, right?  Important information can be overwhelming, but the important question is more interesting how to harness this as power for collaboration for positive change.

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Sources of Innovation Part 2: Understanding The Impact of Organizational Systems

Have you wondered why the current economic crisis felt like it hit us so quickly and severely? Have you wondered why fixing the economy is both slow and difficult.

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Wikis for Collaboration

Watch this video to learn about how wikis can be used to collaborate.

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Organizations of the Future

IBM recently released the 2009 version of the Global CEO Study. The study included in-person interviews with 1,130 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector and business leaders from

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Sources of Innovation Part 1: If You’re a Hammer, Everything Looks Like A Nail

This article begins the first in a multi-part series about uncovering and utilizing the Sources of Innovation in businesses, non-profit and other institutions. Because this work is based on

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The Two Greatest Organizational Strengths

Sustainability and resilience are always valuable, but in times of great uncertainty our competencies in adaptation and renewal will be tested for sure.
So what are we talking about when we

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Economic Crisis: A Focus for Leadership Development

Economics and Money. The economic crisis is on everyone’s mind. In a recent conversation about financial matters, a distinction between money and economics was suggested by a colleague. I can

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Thinking Differently

It’s high time to resume expansion of our global outlook.
I’m pleased to announce an article I co-authored with scholar, social activist and author, Riane Eisler, has just been published in

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A Way to Ease Current Stress

A recent interview with Parker Palmer on PBS’s Bill Moyers’ Journal got me thinking about how the way we view the current state of the world might be worthy of

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Where You Spend Your Time Determines Your Future

“There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” — Albert Einstein
With

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What Makes Good Leaders, Makes Good Followers

What Makes High Performing Teams?

Participative leadership – creating an interdependence by empowering, freeing up and serving others.
Shared responsibility – establishing an environment in which all team members feel responsibility

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We’re All In a Hurry. But Where Are We Going?

The Fall seems like a blur to me. In late summer I started a large strategic planning project and by November the completion of several other long-term project converged.

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Rethinking Strategy and Planning

What is Strategy?
Strategy is a business topic that is both widely discussed and misunderstood. This is due in part to the fact that there are many kinds of strategies

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Why Investing in Change Work is Important

What is the meaning of "change work" and why does it matter?
If the very thought of change work makes your eyes roll, you might be someone who is already aware

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What Else Can You Do?

Technology Entertainment and Design’s (TED) award-winning video heralds the launch of Pangea Day, called for by TED prize winner, Jehane Noujaim.
Watch a powerful 2-minute video to learn about TED and

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Talking Ourselves Into Peace

I awoke at 3:30am the other day – one of those sudden awakening when you can’t go back to sleep so I decided to go online. Checking the headlines, I

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Generating a Million Ideas for Peace

Everyone I speak with these days is looking for ways to make their lives and work more meaningful. Friends and colleagues privileged to hail from the abundance of the

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The Myth of Self-confidence

I was listening to an interview with the famous NY Times journalist, Bob Woodward talking about his new book. In it Woodward recounts how the self-confidence of an administration official

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Strategic Planning… What’s the Value?

Many organizations invest significant resources in formal, annual strategic-planning processes — and then see little benefit from the investment. In research conducted by Sarah Kaplan and Eric Beinhocker of MIT

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Honestly Expressing & Empathetically Listening

10 Things You Can to Contribute to Personal, Community/Organizational and World Peace

Spend some time each day quietly reflecting on how we would like to relate to ourselves and others.
Remember that

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