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Leadership

A Task of Leadership – Aligning Strengths

January 25, 2010 Appreciative Inquiry

I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership. Thinking about what it means in today’s context. I’m making a distinction between leadership and a leader. Leadership as a process is larger than the individual leader. That seems important because leadership happens in relationship with others and within a context. There are many kinds of leadership; thought [...]

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Reflective Work – doing the best you can with what you have

September 30, 2009 Change

A presuppositon of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)is people do the best they can with the resources they have. What does that mean? It is both pragmatic and philosophical. If you lack basic infrastructure, you do the best you can with what you have. When physical/material resources are lacking, we have to make do and there are [...]

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Investing for the greatest return

April 30, 2009 Change

The existing paradigm of focus first on weakness is played out every day in most of our homes, our schools, our institutions, our place of work and worship. We focus on the things that “need fixing”. We invest energy, money, time, intellect, emotion into things that don’t work for us instead of putting energies into those things that will give us an easier and a much-amplified return for our efforts and investments. Simply, what we focus on grows.

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Positive Acts of Service

March 19, 2009 Positivity

When we perform acts of service, no matter how tiny, we experience a positive affect and that leads to more positive actions, and the recipient, if there is one, shows gratitude, and is likely to also perform some positive future action.

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Using Tools Wisely: Using our Strengths to Make a Difference

January 3, 2008 Appreciative Inquiry

Highlight #2 is a summary what became meaningful for the group members as they talked about how they would use their knowlege wisely. Responses to the question: Thinking about the emerging Wisdom Age, and thinking about your strengths / capabilities / resources what might help to make an amazing difference? Integrate and synthesize information into [...]