Category Archives: Working Smarter

BLOG Intention to Practice A couple of years ago I posted some mid-year and year-end “intentions”, to distinguish them from “resolutions”. Intentions are not aspirations; they are things we are in the process of doing, achieving, or becoming. They are … Continue reading →

BLOG A Finding the Sweet Spot Workbook? Since my book Finding the Sweet Spot was published, I’ve been thinking about how to make it more useful. I did set up a companion website, but I was far too ambitious in … Continue reading →

BLOG Resilience is Futile (Adapt and Improvise Instead) I‘ve been using the word resilience to describe the capacity — of individuals, communities and organizations — to improvise, to respond well in the moment. But I think resilience is the wrong word — … Continue reading →

BLOG Can Groups Be Taught to Rectify Their Own Dysfunction? Our hosts during my vacation this past weekend in McKenzie Bridge, OR were Charlene and Galen Phipps. Charlene, it turns out, is a facilitator with an interest in complex adaptive … Continue reading →

BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization A lot of organizations are struggling with what to do with a host of costly, high-maintenance technologies that they have introduced in the last decade, hoping … Continue reading →

BLOG Incubating Entrepreneurship Six steps to sustainable, community-based Natural Enterprise, from my book Finding the Sweet Spot I‘m in Denver for the weekend at the annual conference of BALLE, the international network of community-based sustainable businesses. The reason I’m here … Continue reading →

BLOG Ten Important Business Trends Cartoon by Robert Weber in The New Yorker I‘ve been asked to be a panel member at a conference on Thursday with the intriguing theme What’s Next? My role on the panel is to talk … Continue reading →

BLOG The Trouble with Scenarios A couple of years ago (Dec. 7, 2006), I wrote a review of Peter Schwartz’s 1989 book The Art of the Long View, which outlined an approach to scenario planning and then presented three scenarios … Continue reading →

BLOG What’s Next After Knowledge Management? A Scenario Major information flows in organizations, c. 1975 One of the most important things I’ve learned in the last few years is that, except for senior management, no one in most organizations really … Continue reading →

BLOG How to Save the World? Ask the Right Questions At a conference last year of some of the world’s most renowned and experienced researchers, I asked the question: “What is the defining characteristic of great research?” The most impressive … Continue reading →