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The Currency for Action
Posted by GraysonWe do lots of things in organizations. We envision the future. We set goals, formulate strategies and develop plans. We research, analyze, measure, hypothesize and estimate. We hire people, train them, coordinate their activities, evaluate them, and sometimes let them go. We borrow money, loan money, account for money, promote, sell, manufacture products, deliver services, [...]
Read More >>Still Life with Human Beings (There’s still promise)
Posted by GraysonLife would be so much simpler without everyone else around. Just imagine how much less complicated things would be if we didn’t have to deal with anybody else. Nobody’s schedule to meet; no worrying about how I look, how I’m “doing” or when that promotion/new customer/winning lottery number, etc. might arrive. Say goodbye to office [...]
Read More >>To Join By Weaving (or Context is, Literally, Everything)
Posted by GraysonBackground. Milieu. Setting. Environment. That which surrounds and gives meaning to something else. The parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning. All of these definitions relate to the word “context” (from the latin “to join by weaving”). In the world of executive and organizational coaching, [...]
Read More >>What I’ve Really Been Doing
Posted by GraysonAlong with some great colleagues, mentors and co-conspirators, I’ve spent a good part of the past twenty plus years consulting and coaching executives and teams in diverse organizational cultures and countries (with periodic forays into starting and/or running interesting ventures). From one perspective, it looks like I’ve done a lot of different things over these [...]
Read More >>Leadership Skills for Non-Leaders: October 19, 2011
Posted by GraysonGrayson will be leading this 2-hour seminar at Santa Rosa Junior College (Santa Rosa Campus) in the Work Experience Program. Seminar Details: Leadership Skills for Non-Leaders Whatever job you are in requires personal mastery and making leadership moves to make a difference (and also get your needs met). This seminar looks at leadership from an [...]
Read More >>Spring 2012 Executive Roundtable Series
Posted by GraysonExecutive Leadership Roundtables are where executives use their own real-life organizational challenges and opportunities as the backdrop for exploring and deepening their collaborative leadership skills, drawing from martial arts, self-awareness practices, linguistics, organizational psychology and other disciplines. Stay tuned for specific dates and location.
Read More >>Welcome to Free-Range Ramblings
Posted by GraysonIt’s been forever since we’ve revamped this website and this has been a good opportunity to reflect about what we really do and why it’s important to us. This blog will be a place for some of those reflections, as well as just free-range ramblings on a variety of topics related to human performance, organizational [...]
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