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Movies, Wavers, and Client Love
True confession. I’m the guy you do not want to sit next to on a flight. I like to “chat” with people. I’m infinitely curious and I love to learn about and from others. Recently a client had me...
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Leaders, State Fairs, and a One Man Band
I love the Iowa State Fair. I’m an Iowa native and August always means the Iowa State Fair and a symphony of cicadas. The cicadas have followed me to the East Coast so I still get to hear them each...
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Driving the Rusty Spike – A Free Teleconference for Stuck Writers
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 from 7:30 to 8:30 PM (Eastern), I’m offering a free quickee teleconference titled, Driving the Rusty Spike: Lessons Learned in the True Life Adventures of Dissertating...
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Collective Impact 3.0: Big Ideas from CI Summit in Toronto
I’m a really lucky guy. I got to spend a week with my Canadian friends earlier this month and, once again, they both affirmed and pushed my thinking. Boy, did they affirm and push! The occasion was...
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Beyond the Comfort of What We Think We Know
Has an over-reliance on “best practices” and “evidence-based” practices struck a deathblow to our ability to think creatively and our courage to be experimental? My mind is still mulling over my...
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What if…”Better Practices” not “Best Practices?”
An emphasis on using “evidence based practices” is stifling experimentation. This was the statement I posed in a poll within my last blog, back in February 2015, just before I got sucked into a vortex...
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The Bells of Christmas Eve
I was born much later in our parent’s lives than my sisters. It was never made clear to me whether I was an accident, an afterthought, or simply a last gasp attempt to get a male to carry on the family...
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