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Flexibility Is Key: Why the Top-Down Strategy Is Fading

Associations Now

It may seem quaint these days, but in 2003, there was an emerging technology that drew the same kind of skepticism that cloud computing or BYOD draws today in some corners of the IT sector. Flip your Top-down Strategy. Sure, your organization can have a preferred tool, but maybe the top-down dictation isn’t nearly so necessary.

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Leadership Limerick: Innovation Requires Many Contributions

Idea Architects

Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. These scientific tools are complemented by the specific roles identified by IDEO, one of the worlds most innovative product design firms, in The Ten Faces of Innovation : Anthropologist. Oct 2003 (1).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Mission, Vision, Values: Catalysts.

Idea Architects

How that is accomplished—the structure and strategies used—should be flexible and ever-improving, not shackled by rigid plans and inflexible procedures. Structure and strategy are merely tools to accomplish mission and vision, not things to be preserved at all costs. Labels: mission , strategy , values , vision.

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Leadership Limerick: One Ending is Another Beginning

Idea Architects

Every Monday in 2011, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. Every Fridays post will focus on some tool, technique, or situation related to facilitation, a skill I believe to be fundamental for anyone, bother personally and professionally. Oct 2003 (1).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Five Lessons from the Road

Idea Architects

When we get sloppy with words like strategy, vision, mission, diversity, and many others, we do a real disservice to the deep meaning and full potential they represent. Doing so reminded me again of the value participants find in engaging with simple tools and considering manageable habits they can adopt or adapt to improve their performance.

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Facilitation Friday #29: Six Questions for Decision-Making

Idea Architects

Tools like decision-making grids or Edward deBonos Six Thinking Hats can help ensure thorough consideration of alternatives an evaluation of the selected options using common criteria. Regardless of the tools used or process selected, some of the core questions facilitators must help groups answer include: 1. Oct 2003 (1).

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth Kanter

I also use it as a year in review tool. Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. It isn’t just about the tools, but about how people need to work and think differently.

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