Archive for September, 2006

Beyond the Problem: Start with Future Vision

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

"What is the future vision we are climbing towards? - What is a future outcome I would like to be part of?"
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A rabbi is watching a group of young boys attempt to climb a very flimsy ladder to the top of a tree. Each boy takes his turn and each, at some point, falls back to the ground. Yet [...]

Rest and Reflection

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Wishing each of you time for rest and reflection!

Image: Rest (c) Marc Chagall 1975 

Questions to Move Beyond This is the way things have always been done…

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Keeping in line with the questions theme this week I would like to add a question I heard at a strength based culture change summit I worked on this week: I make a commitment to move from "this is  not how we do that" to "is there a better way to do that?" "is this [...]

Ask Yourself - Ask Questions, Drop Knowledge

Monday, September 11th, 2006

"Asking questions is fundamental to the practice of dropping knowledge. There is no better way to initiate a dialog than with a question, no better way to challenge conventional thinking, discover new viewpoints and stimulate fresh ideas…"
I have been meaning to post on this ever since a kindly reader of this blog whom I have [...]

Are you Game?

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

"With age, some games turn serious" - image below and quote (c) Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun
Quite a while ago, friend and colleague, Colby, alerted me to the importance of ‘gamers’, creaters/designers/players of online games, and their future role in society "they’ll be the future CEO’s" and they will understand what you are talking [...]

Kandinsky

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Listen to the sound, listen to the music!
Image (c) Kandinsky - thanks to Oren