I admit it. I don’t like planning. I find it tedious and I am always itching to do something. I love problems, projects, challenges that can be solved and then you can move on. It’s why I’ve done lots of issues management and crisis communications. When “it” hits the fan, I’m your girl. However, I realize that theContinue reading “How Star Wars helped me appreciate planning”
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Untangling complex problems
The Christmas lights were horribly tangled. How does this happen when they are just sitting in a box for the year? As I started from one end, created some slack, gave some random shakes accompanied by some frustrated words, I started to think about how we approach complex organizational “tangles.” You know, the issues that are yearsContinue reading “Untangling complex problems”
Why blame?
When I was out for a walk last night, a lovely family of four was biking along a path at the top of the hill on the horizon. Suddenly, the little girl – obviously a new rider of perhaps six or seven years old – fell off her bike. She didn’t even appear to wobble,Continue reading “Why blame?”
Driving… and leading in the fog
Earlier this week I was driving to work in dense fog and the driver in front of me did not have his headlights on. Sure, the automatic daytime running lights were on but the tail lights were not. I’m sure the driver did not intend this but by failing to adjust his daily driving routine toContinue reading “Driving… and leading in the fog”
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