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Maverick & Boutique: February 2013
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February 18, 2013. Like the QWERTY keyboard which refuses to go away, SWOT analysis as a way of analyzing your readiness for engaging with the future, has also become very persistent and pervasive. For some of us who work in the world of personal and organizational change, we know that a focus on the negative merely reinforces past patterns of activity, and so we try to analyze situations in a more positive or dynamic way that generates forward movement, generates enthusiasm and taps into passions. 2 Cho...
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Maverick & Boutique: September 2014
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September 29, 2014. New Partners in Economic Development. There's a revolution underway in economic development across the USA. Inching its way out is the traditional real estate-focused approach to economic development and some of the $80 billion in tax breaks (NY Times, December 1, 2012). And other incentives state and local governments offer to attract new businesses and jobs. S, churches or sustainable energy entrepreneurs. Rhode Island and John Findlay, Maverick and Boutique. Six teams began by iden...
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Maverick & Boutique: January 2012
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January 5, 2012. Everything is a major project. Once upon a time, we thought of major projects as space exploration, new warships, armored vehicles or fighter planes, and infrastructure investments in roads, electricity and telecommunications. Until now, we have focused, and placed high value, on technological skills at the expense of the so-called soft skills, many of which are critical to successful management of major projects in today’s complex and rapidly changing world. Most project manag...To deve...
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Maverick & Boutique: Collectively "Creating the future" in uncertain times
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August 30, 2013. Collectively "Creating the future" in uncertain times. The best way to predict your future is to create it". So said Abraham Lincoln. If you ever wonder why so many of are constantly participating in some kind of community engagement process to develop one kind of strategic plan or another, there's some very cogent reasons. The 20-year strategic planning cycles along with the 10-year, 5-year and 2-year cycles are all dead, buried by the tsunami of accelerating change. We create the futur...
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Maverick & Boutique: August 2009
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August 30, 2009. A new/old kind of connectedness. So much of what we do as organization leaders is the old command and control model. Decide the strategy and cascade the plan to every level. Some staff, customers and suppliers buy into such plans, but many do not. But what if it was possible to allow the new strategic directions and the action plans to emerge organically through the interplay of people within the organziation so they own the strategy? Would the plan be any different? It is a unique actio...
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Maverick & Boutique: October 2009
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October 26, 2009. The dawning of the Wisdom Age. What if the explosion in the economic activity and knowledge work we regard as the Knowledge Age (1980-2010) was almost over and a new economic imperative was suddenly upon us? The Wisdom Age (2010-)? From the future point this way. How might such a trend affect the way we think about the world and the new kinds of products and services that people want? And the new kinds of jobs people will do? To do this, more and more jobs will be created to wisely appl...
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Maverick & Boutique: July 2014
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July 28, 2014. The library is dead. Long live the library. Just as pundits are predicting the demise of libraries and politicians are cutting their funding, a new kind of library is rising from the ashes of the old. And books are not being burned ether. Far from it. You can access a copy of the strategic plan. At the LLNJ website ), or track the strategic planning process. What is it important to keep that we have done in the past? What is our new work/activity? Our brand/identity: What are we known for?
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Maverick & Boutique: New Partners in Economic Development
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September 29, 2014. New Partners in Economic Development. There's a revolution underway in economic development across the USA. Inching its way out is the traditional real estate-focused approach to economic development and some of the $80 billion in tax breaks (NY Times, December 1, 2012). And other incentives state and local governments offer to attract new businesses and jobs. S, churches or sustainable energy entrepreneurs. Rhode Island and John Findlay, Maverick and Boutique. Six teams began by iden...
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The Wisdom Economy: August 2011
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A new era in human development is emerging from the rubble of the global financial crises, in which "the wise application of knowledge" is the key driver, and the complex adaptive system the core metaphor. Monday, August 8, 2011. Opportunities in the chaos. At first glance, the volatile economic conditions which have prevailed since the global financial crisis have mostly downsides; accelerating change, greater uncertainty and hard-to-manage-complexity. It’s a bewildering, contradictory muddle. Meanwhile...
