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Doing Strategic Planning #1: Vision & Mission Statements
One of the services that I provide is to help small organizations and groups do strategic planning. My approach is to shepherd the group through the process and get them thinking about how the...
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Doing Strategic Planning #2: Decision Making and Identifying Policy Material...
Continuing on the posts about strategic planning, today I want to share how I encourage people to develop policy. The organization that I am helping had a baseline report drafted by a committee...
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Ham Radio was the original Twitter
So I was driving home last night and saw an old man in his station wagon, I happened to notice that his license plate was his amateur radio call sign. This promptly reminded me of a recent occurrence...
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Doing Strategic Planning #4: Adapting Existing Organization-External...
This is part of the continuing series about Strategic Planning and outlines the process I am using with a particular organization. I wanted to briefly explain something that I think is a viable...
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On Failure & Resilience in Optimization of Human Systems, Ecological Systems,...
I was recently watching Eleanor Saitta’s talk called “Your Infrastructure Will Kill You“. Part of her talk outlined how optimization equals fragility (more or less). That to the degree that something...
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Real Life Applications of Cognitive Linguistics
I have said it before and I will say it again: ANYTHING that requires thought benefits from a cognitive linguistic perspective. We use language to help in making sense of the world, this goes for broad...
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