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Connecting the dots between Character, Presence and Client Effectiveness
In this post I summarizes my thoughts on Daryl Conner’s Character and Presence series.
How to integrate Social Architecture into our Projects
Are you ready to integrate Social Architecture into your projects? Here are some insights that will help you to stay on the right track.
Getting Serious about Community Development (Part 7)
As we are developing this series on community development, at some point it’s time to start wondering about the impact this all has on the inside of an organization.
When is it Time to Go? (Part 3)
In the third and last post of this series I address the conciliation of the ideal situation and what usually happens
When is it Time to Go? (Part 2)
The problem of dependency is that we solve the problem without treating the root-cause.
When is it Time to Go? (Part 1)
This is the first part of a three-part series in which I am searching for the ideal point in time when it is time to end a consulting engagement.
Getting Serious about Community Development (Part 6)
Transforming the community by inverting the way we manage resistance? That’s another one of those counterintuitive things you need to know about community development.
Getting Serious about Community Development (Part 5)
Change leadership is an empty thing. This is not cynic remark, but a crucial observation of where our added value as a practitioner is located: in context, rather than content.
Sometimes Anger is the Ultimate Commitment
As a change practitioner we should sharpen our diagnostic skills for dealing with anger. If we don’t, we will be navigating the project with a defective compass.
Getting Serious about Community Development (Part 4)
The good old art of managing the emotional bank account of trust.