Strategic Leadership

Creating Your Bold Vision – The Mid-Year Review

In mid-December we wrote one of our year end, “get ready for next year” blog posts called, “Creating Your Bold Vision.” Now that we are moving in to the second half of the year we are wondering – how’s that working for you? Traditionally at the end of the year the majority of our clients and friends are working on “what’s next.”  The… Read more

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It’s 2011 – Dream Big

To move into a New Year powerfully and to create the results you want there are some key steps to take. The first is creating an “elegant ending” to the past. Last week we posted about “letting go of 2010,” and included a free download of a worksheet to help you do it. Now it’s time to move on to envisioning and documenting your 2011 “Yonder… Read more

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Creating Your Bold Vision

This is the time of year when the majority of our clients and friends are working on “what’s next.”  The effort ranges from New Year’s resolutions, to budgets, to creating an entirely new vision and, (hopefully), strategy to go with it. Most often, we find these efforts produce predictions based on past experience, rather than launching a… Read more

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Leading a Meaningful Life

Author’s Note: Building on last week’s blog post which was my key note speech at a Women’s Symposium in China I am posting the talk I am giving to the same group of Chinese Women Leadership Students for an upcoming break out session. In the opening ceremony, I did a quick scan of the global picture of women’s leadership in the highest… Read more

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Putting Your Passion and Purpose on the Path to Leadership

    This week I am privileged to be speaking to the women of  The World Academy for the Future of Women at SIAS International University in Xinzheng City, Henan Province, People’s Republic of China.  For the past 18 months or so we have been working with Global Interactions and their President Jerrie Ueberle, (as well as… Read more

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Sustainable Strategic Change

In a recent post we explored how the idea of the OODA Loop, created by US Air Force strategist, Colonel John Boyd, can clarify and focus strategic action.  This week, we are once again drawing from a strategic military process.  This time we are drawing on an approach from the new Army-Marine COIN, (Counter Insurgency), field manual that we… Read more

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2010 – What’s Your Plan?

If you have done the completion work we recommended in our last post, it’s time to move on to creating and documenting your 2010, (or longer), Yonder Star(s) and creating plans for fulfillment. If you have never taken the time to sit down and map out your Yonder Star, you might start by doing some thinking about real, meaningful New Year’s… Read more

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