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How Leaders Develop Leaders | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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How Leaders Develop Leaders. November 24, 2010. This title of a 1997 article. By Eli Cohen, Research Director at the University of Michigan Business School and Noel Tichy, who is also at the School and teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management is striking in its elegance and power. So isn’t that where leadership learning should occur? Ask Cohen and Tichy, The best way to get more leaders is to have leaders develop leaders, they posit. Leaders have a ‘teachable’ point of view. With co...
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February | 2015 | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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Monthly Archives: February 2015. Even Our Success Gets in the Way of Our Aspirations. February 3, 2015. 2014 began for me by reading. The Power of Habit. By Charles Duhigg. As the New York Times Review of Books accurately observed, this is a serious look at the science of habit formation and change. Part two,. The Habits of Successful Organizations. Should be required reading for anyone who cares deeply about the enterprise they’re leading. Building Your Company’s Vision. How Great Leaders Inspire Action.
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The Fifth Question (with a nod to Peter Senge) | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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The Fifth Question (with a nod to Peter Senge). April 4, 2012. There’s some adage about biting the hand that feeds you. Strategic planning—as currently practiced and promulgated is based on the notion that we can not only predict the future, but can decide in advance how we will manage that futurethree, five, even ten years hence. So, instead of hammering out goals, objectives, strategies, tactics, and timelines, imagine a facilitated process addressing five fundamental, provocative and exciting questions.
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For two decades, Partners in Performance has provided guidance to the arts and cultural community in the areas of visioning, planning, and development. As a full services professional services firm, we are committed to three core values:. Recognizing the unique nature of each organization’s culture, history, and aspiration. Delivering high quality service in support of artistic expression and community impact. Building the collective knowledge base within the arts and culture field. February 3, 2015.
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Making Do with More | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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Making Do with More. March 1, 2011. Humans are really good at dealing with scarcity, but terrible with abundance.”. Clay Shirkey, author of. So, now is hardly the time to have an argument. About whether we have too many or too few arts organizations, and/or whether the large ones or the small ones should get support. This is plain silly. Must become the core strategy. A focus on creative learning systems. Like with Big Thought. Priorities must be recalibrated. Tagged: Arts and relevance. Maybe this is a ...
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Creative Organizations…Are Rarely Tidy (with thanks to John Gardner) | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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Creative OrganizationsAre Rarely Tidy (with thanks to John Gardner). September 7, 2012. Century is not for tidy minds! Boy, I’d like to claim ownership of this crucial observation. But alas, the credit goes to Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, the globe’s biggest ad agency. Sir Martin goes on to say, The messier it is the better! Yet, we’ve grown up to understand tidiness is good, messiness is bad. (NOTE: Just don’t look at my desk! Reach beyond the organizational boundaries. Facilitate real work—of ...
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August 26, 2010. There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. Robert Benchley. That said, I had a simply marvelous vacation, resplendent with hiking, rafting, and horseback riding in the Tetons, then a week of blissful hard work aboard the 40’ Island Sun, prowling the Abacos in the northeastern Bahamas. Thanks to Alan, my captain, from his highly inept, yet hard working first mate! Most of these leaders also know how they would like to get there...
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Governance IS Governance | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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October 10, 2013. List of Board duties from a. Make a financial contribution of at least $1,000. Purchase two tickets to the annual October gala event. Subscribe to the season and bring guests whenever possible. Attend six out of the eight board meetings per year. Serve on at least two committees. Are these good things to do? Likely, yes. Do they have anything to do with governance? It’s been a dozen years now since Ken Dayton’s seminal article “ Governance is Governance. 8221; was published by. What opp...
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What if We Compensate Non-profit Boards? | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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What if We Compensate Non-profit Boards? April 23, 2010. While the details of what actually happened will likely become a ‘he said/she said’ wrangle, the very fact that the California attorney general’s office demanded recently that the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art. In Los Angeles go back to school. So, instead of compromising such a role by asking them to ‘give, get, or get off’, what if we compensated them? An annual honorarium for service that says come to the table prepared with your best ...
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How Do Expectations Influence Organizational Behavior? | The Blacksburg Dialogue
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How Do Expectations Influence Organizational Behavior? August 29, 2011. Driving across North Carolina last week I heard an interview with Wes Moore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. Less about environment and more about expectations. This insight has led a number of colleges to choose it as a ‘common book’ for their 2011 incoming freshmen. Over the past year I have been working with a number of groups that are retrenching, cutting budgets, restructuring, merging, etc. While such steps may be...
