Lately, I’ve been talking plenty about mission statements—with everyone from an education client with a wonderful heritage to a new leadership development organization to my own family, the latter inspired by this WSJ article from Bruce Feiler and encouraged by my friend and colleague Cora. At some point in every process, so many hands have […]
In Message Development, Be Positively Persuasive
Last week, I met with a client who is rightly concerned that people in her company view her unit as a roadblock. Divisions have to get clearance from her group before they can proceed on their projects. As we talked through her concerns, we identified a simple, but significant theme. People inside and outside her […]
On Storytelling: Weave a Yarn That Sticks
Like all parents, my husband and I spend a lot of time educating our daughter. Fostering a global perspective, particularly on economics—really abstract concepts for a kid—can be one of the toughest lessons to master. A few years back, we stumbled across If the World Were a Village, a book that made our job so […]