Practice Makes Perfect
Many fluent English speakers may have heard this expression “Practice Makes Perfect" at some point. Most of our organizations and projects are of course not really going for ‘perfect’ but [...]
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Jan 2022
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Dec 2021
Reflecting on the Year
I haven’t done an end of the year blog post in a number of years now, but there is something about this year that feels like it merits marking its [...]
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Sep 2021
Testing New Leadership Approaches
Readers of this blog will know that for the past few years I have written about a project I founded and manage called the Testing Change project. The Testing Change [...]
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Dec 2020
Rebuilding civil society
Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change [...]
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Apr 2020
The Next Phase
We’ve survived the first weeks… Phase 1, the high intensity, quick decision-making time is ending. Phase 2 is harder, it’s the endurance phase. It’s like moving from acute to chronic, [...]
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Apr 2020
Lessons from Global Health
Helping Babies Survive Although I am not a global health specialist, as a strategist, I have worked with many medical groups in the global health arena over the past 25 [...]
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Nov 2019
Themes and Tips from a Peer Convening
Upswell is a convening organized by the national organization Independent Sector to bring together those working towards change in the social sector in the US. The following are a few [...]
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Nov 2019
Global Maturity: An Organizational Framework to Succeed Globally
Last week I participated in a discussion around some of the success factors for how organizations can engage and grow more effectively internationally. We reviewed a report entitled Association Global [...]
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Feb 2019
The long term nature of change
I’ve been leading an initiative that’s now going into its sixth year and have thus been thinking about some of our learning around long term change. Long term change for [...]
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Jul 2018
Two decades of learning
We’re at an interesting juncture in the history of civil society / social sector organizations. Many innovative organizations that started 20-25 years ago have now reached a certain maturity, with [...]