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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Business – Fordelm We come alongside leadership teams to see, understand and uncover their organization’s strengths and issues, building up their capacity for individual, team and organizational health & growth. Regardless of how you measure success, we’ll get to the heart of the matter together, sort out the issu...

A new year, a new look. A sneak-peak at Fordelm's new web-site.

Business – Fordelm We come alongside leadership teams to see, understand and uncover their organization’s strengths and issues, building up their capacity for individual, team and organizational health & growth. Regardless of how you measure success, we’ll get to the heart of the matter together, sort out the issu...

Antoine de Satin Exubery was born on today's date in 1900. I love this quote of his!

I was working with a group this week that hates planning. After a pause, I realized why: they love going every which way with no role clarity, no accountability, and without any concern for the ongoing sustainability of the project. Planning means stopping, or at least slowing down, to gather information, understand the issues, and then putting a realistic plan in place. Takes time and discipline, and who wants that!

1) Stop. Listen. Enjoy the silence. 2) Lead, do not be entirely responsive. 3) Stay on mission in spite of the urgent. 4) Communicate clearly. Consider your words carefully (do not fill up the space). 5) Be relevant, by being authentic and constantly searching for meaning. 6) Focus on health: physical, emotional, psychological, relational, and spiritual.

Adaptive leaders are seeing the opportunity to switch up their game. Rapidly. And nimbly. The new normal is emerging, but it's going to be wobbly for awhile. I feel comfortable predicting that the old normal is not going to return, anywhere, ever.

I attended two meetings in the last 16 hours and neither had clear objectives: the reason we were meeting was unclear even as the meeting began. I would have been of more value as a participant if I'd called ahead and asked the delicate questions, "Why are we meeting, what do you hope to get out of the time invested?"