What Makes a Successful Community?

August 9, 2011
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The Backstory In a few days you will get to read the next installment in the Captains Curious series, which was written by creativity expert Connie Harryman. Connie and I became friends through our mutual involvement in an online community for Organization Development professionals, and we both serve on the Operations Team (the board) for [...]

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You Are Not a Charity

August 3, 2011

Two significant things happened in the last week that have shifted the way I think, and I’d like to share them with you. Maybe you will find them useful, too. An Experiment I recently offered to try an experiment with my cohorts in one of my Master Mind groups, and it worked so well that [...]

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Intentional Overflow

July 26, 2011

This morning I was on a weekly conference call with a handful of friends who are also entrepreneurs in helping professions. As always, it was a rich conversation. Today we touched on many interrelated topics, including priorities, questioning how we define “productivity,” setting boundaries, keeping commitments to ourselves, and fun. In other words, a typical [...]

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Two Old Women – A Parable

July 19, 2011

Once Upon a Time, two old women were abandoned by their tribe during a horribly long, bitter winter when the tribe did not have enough to eat. Members of the tribe did not want to do it, but they saw no other way to survive. There was not enough food to go around, and the [...]

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Captains Curious: The Reactivation of My Imagination

July 14, 2011

Welcome to Captains Curious, a weekly series of guest posts on the subject of Curiosity. The newest contributing member is Ruth Kellogg! To learn about the other Captains Curious, please click here. Imagination, Curiosity and Infinite Possibility You and I both know that imagination all by itself has unlimited possibility. When was the last time [...]

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The Goldfinches’ Guide to Creativity

July 12, 2011

A few years ago, my sister (Hi, Casey!) gave me a very cool birthday present: A bag of cotton wool in a cotton net bag, designed to hang next to the bird feeder. Why? So goldfinches (my favorite bird) could use the cotton wool in their nest building. It worked great, too! The goldfinches loved [...]

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Captains Curious: Curiosity, People-Watching and Business Reconnaissance

July 7, 2011
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Welcome to Captains Curious, a weekly series of guest posts on the subject of Curiosity. The newest contributing member is Christie Halmick! To learn about the other Captains Curious, please click here. An Introvert Uses Curiosity As an introvert, curiosity is a quiet endeavor. I can sit happily at the back of a room full [...]

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Three Business Terms I Promise Not to Use

July 5, 2011
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Call me a heretic, especially considering my line of work, but I’m about to share three terms that make my eyes roll back in my head: Mission Critical Critical Success Factors Key Performance Indicators (and its evil acronym, “KPIs”) Don’t get me wrong. The ideas behind these terms are valuable. But they are overused, and [...]

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Captains Curious: Curiosity, Mischief and Sending Jesus to a Different Party

June 30, 2011
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Welcome to Captains Curious, a weekly series of guest posts on the subject of Curiosity. This week we have an encore performance from Captains Curious member Colin Beveridge! To learn about the other Captains Curious, please click here. Who would you invite? There’s a common ‘define yourself’ exercise that asks you to list the historical [...]

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How Willing Are You to Be Caught Learning?

June 28, 2011
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This fairly innocuous question came up recently in discussion, and I admit it went in one ear and out the other until later. How willing are you to be caught learning? Whether facilitating a discussion or process, managing a project, or leading others in whatever capacity, we I want to look good. We I want [...]

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