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Strategy – What is it? Why use it? Which one for us?
What is strategy, why have a strategy, and what type of strategy is best for my business?
Continue reading...Metaphors – What Are They?
What are metaphors and why do we use them here at Sterling Insights? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors
Continue reading...Change Management – Leaders Need These Skills
Survey Shows Business Leaders More Successful at Major Change During the Recession by Evan Carmichael Maurer & Associates, Inc., a leading change management firm, conducted a new online survey of the challenge of change in today’s organizations. The survey found that 33% of leaders were more successful at implementing major change during the most recent [...]
Continue reading...Industry/Trend Analysis – Prioritization
When we help companies take a look at the future and decided what they want to do about it, we have them take a look at their indudstry, for example the health industry, and the trends that may impact their business either positively or negatively. If you don’t know what is happening or is most like to happen [...]
Continue reading...Using Nature as a Metaphor for Solving Humanity’s Problems
There are many examples where nature has solved problems in a way that might provide ideas for solving humanity’s economic, environmental and social challenges. One very popular example in architecture is how termites develop their living environment to include “air conditioning” by virtue of structural design. Here is a video of that solution: Termite World – Life in the Undergrowth – BBC Attenborough [...]
Continue reading...Time Management – How To
In order to manage your time effectively, consider your answers to the following time management best practices: 1. Do I hold planning sessions with myself every day (for ex: at 4:30pm) to review today’s “to do” list and draft the next day’s “to do” list and to review tomorrow’s appointments making notation of what I [...]
Continue reading...Thinking Strategically
DO THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION THINK STRATEGICALLY? Strategic Thinking capability throughout the organization is on the minds of CEO’s these days. The need to execute the organization’s strategy and respond to evolving environments with rapid response is requiring that all employees think strategically. Do your employees think strategically? To think strategically, employees should understand the [...]
Continue reading...Facilitation and Group Dynamics – “WIGOH” by Rita Sterling
“The Earth is running out of energy resources, but there is a source of special energy which has scarcely been tapped. It is the power available in groups, the power of group synergy. Tapping into group synergy is made possible through powerful group facilitation.” – The Art of Facilitation by Hunter, Bailey, & Taylor[1] Powerful [...]
Continue reading...Tomorrow’s Child Poem
Ray Anderson read this poem during his TED conference talk regarding sustainability. Tomorrow’s Child © Glenn Thomas Without a name; an unseen face and knowing not your time nor place Tomorrow’s Child, though yet unborn, I met you first last Tuesday morn. A wise friend introduced us two, and through his sobering point of view [...]
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