The Gratitude Mindset (Why it Matters)
Being grateful makes us feel good and helps us find what important things to focus on when developing a strategy for innovating and moving ahead.
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Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox
Strategy in chaos is like whitewater rafting — it needs stillness among the motion. Sometimes the best transformation and boldest action is doing nothing.
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Seasons and the Sun: Seeing and Experiencing Change
Thinking in ‘seasons’ allows us to see systems at play that are disguised in the every day. To every thing there is a season.- Ecclesiastes 3:1 When I first recalled this biblical quote, I remembered it as everything, not every thing. It’s a subtle, but profound difference and is noted in the song with the
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Causal Looks: Foresight Fundamentals
It’s been said the best way to predict the future is to create it: foresight is way to help us determine if its the one we want. There’s no shortage of quotes about the future. From the weather to strategic plans, we humans love to forecast and plan for what is to come. But beyond
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Seeing the Unknown
We prepare for what we know and see. To address the challenges of the future, we need to imagine things differently in order to see them before they exist. Sometimes we need to believe to see things. Sometimes we need to know what we don’t know and can’t know (now) to understand what we’ll need
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An Organizing Framework for Innovation
Innovation requires the right organizing, not just skill and vision. This article explores what that means in practice.
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Riding the waves of resilience
Big shakeups happen in work, life, and the economy regularly. Navigating these waves of change well requires forethought and foresight. How do we prepare ourselves to meet the future in a way that accounts for all the changes that are underway without us giving up our agency and purpose? Strategic foresight is an approach that
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Getting Out of Our Heads
Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads. Norman Vincent Peale is believed to have once stated: “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale It’s hard to deny that a change of mind can quite literally change the way you perceive the
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Developmental Evaluation is not for you
Developmental evaluation is a powerful tool to support innovation, engaging communities, and foster deep learning. While it might be growing in popularity, increasingly in demand, and a key difference-maker for social and technological innovators it might also not be for you. Developmental evaluation (DE) is an approach to evaluation that is designed to support innovation
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Strategy: Myths, fantasies, and reality
A defining feature of sustained excellence in any enterprise is a good strategy — a vision and plan linked to the delivery of something of value, consistently. One of the big reasons many organizations fail to thrive is not just that they that have the wrong strategy, but that they don’t have one at all
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