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The Yellow Brick Road to Your Dreams
Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz our inspiration and our answers are within us, always. Yet, our inspiration is often obscured by our doubts and fears, the “lions and tigers and bears”. When we begin the journey down the yellow brick road that leads to our dreams, we must face our deepest fears to ...
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.”
This quote by Richard Bach offers an important insight. The question is whether we are aware when we “argue for our limitations”. I have become increasingly aware in my own life, and when I am talking with others, of the ways we limit ourselves. Have you ever noticed, perhaps in conversation with someone else, when ...
What Keeps You from Getting What You Want?
This is really the big question, isn’t it? All of our challenges relate to how to achieve our desired outcomes, whether individually or collectively. We navigate through our existing conditions to steer our organizations and our lives toward our vision of the future. We tend to focus on what seems to be the obvious obstacles ...
Dissolving Silos
We’ve likely all experienced or observed what is often referred to as the “Silo Effect”. It “refers to a lack of communication and common goals between departments in an organization” as defined by Wikipedia. This phenomenon can also be observed in communities, where independent organizations, all working to provide community services in some capacity, lack ...
Recommendations that do not get Implemented
Working with communities over the years I have noticed a common theme. Whatever situation a group is trying to tackle, they often already have a report prepared by an outside expert that addresses the situation. While the group may acknowledge the validity of the information, it rarely gets implemented. These reports are often left sitting ...
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