Over the years I’ve written about how convoluted strategic planning gets for most organizations. Most of the small non-profits I work with seem to think it’s wise to use mainstream business strategic planning frameworks to plot their way forward. Even though these frameworks are pursued with the best of intentions, for many volunteer Boards of small and meagerly funded organizations, it’s usually overkill to adopt highly technical frameworks for planning. It might just be too much. Even the process of vision, mission, goals and objectives is often too overbearing because it tends to force conversations into boxes, …
Work-In-Progress, is the new blog of Open Space Technology creator Harrison Owen. It’s taken many years, but I’m happy to see him in the blogoshpere. Harrison has always been generous about sharing his writing and his thoughts and of course, the process he created, and this is a nice extension of that spirit.
Scoured from the corners of the web this week: Luke Mitchell on the challenges of establishing universal health care in the USA. Courtesy of my friend Vera Wabegijig’s facebook page, a list of Aboriginal CBC personalities. Peter Rukavina finds a great site on mapping your childhood WFMU shares some blue excerpts from Obama’s autobiography. Great ringtone potential here.
could it be that I actually like the flow of music on CBC Radio Two? …hmmmm…. Last year when Radio Two changed its format, it was met with stinging criticism as it cut back it’s classical music offerings and diversified the genres it plays. But last week I was hanging out in Toronto at my brother’s house and he put on Radio Two in the morning and we left it on all day. I was struck by how well the mix of programming seemed to go with my mood. Most of the day is still classical music, the afternoon drive …
I have had an interesting few days working with Aboriginal leadership from around North America. In Michigan last week, I helped convene 24 folks interested in what indigenous leadership means, and today I am here in Port McNeil BC, hosting a community to community forum between First Nations and local governments. One of the things that folks in the rest of indigenous North America don’t realize about the cultures of the west coast is how radically different they are from the cultures of the plains, desert and forests of the rest of North America. This is true in many ways, …