Every healthy community, whether it’s a neighborhood association, an open-source project, a professional organization, or an online forum, relies on feedback to grow. Constructive input is essential to progress. It is also integral to ensuring ownership by everyone involved in both the process and the results. However, there is a distinct archetype familiar to anyone who has ever tried to… Read more →
In the evolving landscape of organizational development, the language we use acts as a bedrock for our culture. Yet, we are often guilty of clinging to terminology that no longer serves our mission, or worse, actively undermines it. To build organizations defined by The Guidant Path, we must be willing to strip away the “noise” in our vocabulary. The failure… Read more →
“It liberates the vandal to travel – you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.” – Mark Twain, The American Abroad speech, 1868 I often find… Read more →