Category: Newsletters
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Preparing Effective Meetings
You are tasked with arranging and preparing a meeting or conference. 1. Clarify the objective of the task. The objective of this task may be to ensure that the appropriate participants are invited to the meeting at a specific time, and that a suitable conference room has been reserved with the necessary equipment, and also…
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Some suggestions to facilitate dialogue
Some tips to facilitate interpersonal dialogue. When you express your opinion: Make your reasoning explicit. That is, explain how you arrived at that opinion and the "facts" on which it is based. Encourage others to explore your opinion: Do you see any gaps in my reasoning? Encourage others to present other points of view: Do you have…
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Spirit of Adventure
“It is not a mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary, first to summit Everest. Men will live in vain, however secure and comfortable their lives may be, if they allow the spirit of adventure to die within them. For such people, the fulfillment of…
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How to carry out Organizational Change
After so many years of defending ourselves against life and seeking better ways to control it, we sit exhausted within the inflexible structures of the organization we've created, wondering what happened. What happened to efficiency, creativity, and meaning? What happened to us? Trying to change these structures is the challenge of…
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Time Management
Life isn't all tears and groans; it's a combination of work and good humor to face daily challenges. A good laugh heals, chases away ghosts, chases away death. Work, work, work. Inspiration doesn't exist; it's about sitting down every day. Juan Filloy, writer (105 years old). Many of us…
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Community of Purpose
Problems such as fragmentation, competition, and reactivity are deeply rooted in our culture. They are not merely mistakes we repeat over and over; they spring directly from our history. The triumph of reductionism and mechanistic thinking has given rise to a number of conditions for which they are no longer desirable. The…