Fouro has it right: Had a conversation this weekend–several, actually–about how one goes about changing an organization. In the course of chatting I realized something simple: You can’t change organizations. You can only reveal them to themselves. And they like what they see. Or not.” Once we reveal ourselves to ourselves we can begin to heal, effect changes, choose futures, reconnect pieces and establish life again. And organizations reveal themselves through story seen through eyes and ears attuned to deeper meaning.
A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world From an article called Making it Up and Making it Happen I was working with an Aboriginal group the other day developing a vision and mission statement. Lately I have been looking at how we actually create these things in a way that is authentic and appreciative instead of top-down and prescriptive. I’ve never been a big fan of the “Vision Statement,” being the kind of guy that eschews fixed statements of fact …
Michael Herman has been working: “i noticed the messes i made, the things i forgot to do, the things i avoided, and the things left half-finished in distraction. i noticed, too, the things that other[s] did before i could get to them. this made more space for everybody.” From a lovely post on the deep implications of focussing on small things.
It’s been a crazy busy week, travelling the length of Vancouver Island in a car and now in the middle of teaching a two day course at the Chief Dan George Centre, at Simon Fraser University. So here’s something out of the blue – literally. From a new read, bird on the moon comes this piece about dolphins who create toruses made of air and play with them. The young dolphin gives a quick flip of her head, and an undulating silver ring appears–as if by magic–in front of her. The ring is a solid, toroidal bubble two feet across–and …
I’ve been working a lot with youth over the my career in all kinds of fields. This week I got another chance to work with the members of the teens and 20s leadership generation at an event hosted by Cool Vancouver, which is the City of Vancouver’s sustainability plan around greenhouse gas reductions. I am working with the excellent friends at Karyo Communications, who are logistics wizards, and do they ever know how to write invitations. We put out an invitation to the world and got 160 youth showing up on Wednesday evening to discuss tapping youth leadership to make …