Solution-Focus

Thursday, 26 November 2009, 15:57 | Category : Coaching, Leadership, Social Change
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How much time do you spend in each of the following states?

Oh, look, that isn’t working! See how it isn’t working? Did you notice this part over here doesn’t work either?
Hey, I am trying to fix this, can you hand me a lever?

Many of us get fascinated by the first state. Point to all the [...]

Zero-Sum Games

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 13:13 | Category : Coaching, Community, Leadership
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Have you ever heard of zero-sum games? How about non-zero sum games? For those of you who have not heard of zero-sum games, allow me to briefly explain and share some links. It comes from political and economic theory, and it means if wins are plusses and losses are negatives, the equation will end up [...]

Fund Thrivable.org kick-off

Friday, 31 July 2009, 12:51 | Category : Coaching, Community, Field Building, Leadership, Social Change, Uncategorized
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After three years of exploration and network building, writing and discussion, planning and processing, Thrivable.org is just about ready for kick-off. We will have a soft launch to our friends and collaborators this month (August) and will run a pilot for three to six months.
While I have self-funded the development until this point, the work [...]

Philanthropy – field changing

This is extracted from a note I sent out to Leaders engaged with Inspired Legacies:
The theme for my trip seemed to be democratization of philanthropy and knowledge sharing across internet sites and organizational silos.
Tracy and I met up and joined Leif and Eric Utne along with several of my friends for dinner. Eric is doing [...]

New Activists, Cheating, and Millenials

Monday, 19 May 2008, 21:51 | Category : Leadership, Social Change
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Several links out folks.
1. New Activists article in ODE is fabulous.
2.Cheat Neutral is brilliant with video.
3. Blogging conversation between thrivability (my other blog) and gifthub about making change and millenials.