Blogs for Decision-Makers
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A. Where are you coming from?
1. Do you have a "method in your madness" when making decisions?
2. What is your favorite movie and why?
3. "High Noon": Example of the Hero's Journey
4. "It's A Wonderful Life": Example of the Decision-Maker's Path
5. "Witness": Combined Example
6. "Witness": Out of the Ordinary
7. "Experiment in Terror"
1. Do you have a "method in your madness" when making decisions?
2. What is your favorite movie and why?
3. "High Noon": Example of the Hero's Journey
4. "It's A Wonderful Life": Example of the Decision-Maker's Path
5. "Witness": Combined Example
6. "Witness": Out of the Ordinary
7. "Experiment in Terror"
B. Where do you want to go with the issue?
1. "Lawrence of Arabia": What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie?
2. Why is change regarded as a 'soft' area?
3. What is the best way to help someone change?
4. CHANGE MANAGEMENT: What or who is our worst enemy?
C. What are you waiting for?
1. Do you know of a better way to read a book to help you make a decision to change?
2. How do I find a truly satisfying role for the long(ish) term?
3. What determined your career path?
4. How is it possible not to think too much?
5. Are you part of the creative solution or an unconscious reactionary?
6. Refusing to dig deep?
7. Common-sense philosophy for managing change?
8. Why do people fear success?"
9. The Reality: What you know? Who you know? Who they know? Or who knows YOU?!
8. Why do people fear success?"
9. The Reality: What you know? Who you know? Who they know? Or who knows YOU?!
2. Questions for Decision-Makers
3. What are the sources of disruption to your ideal plans and how do you minimize their impact?
4. What do you consider are the key components/tools/topics that are relevant to business change and 'change management’?
5. What process do you use in decision making?
6. What is your integrity-based decision making process? Does it work?
7. Rash Decisions? Is there such a thing?
8. How do you think?
3. What are the sources of disruption to your ideal plans and how do you minimize their impact?
4. What do you consider are the key components/tools/topics that are relevant to business change and 'change management’?
5. What process do you use in decision making?
6. What is your integrity-based decision making process? Does it work?
7. Rash Decisions? Is there such a thing?
8. How do you think?
9. Head v. Heart
10. Greatest invention/theory of all time and why?
11. What makes you Unique? And, after all, what makes you so Generic as all the others?
12. Role of Spirituality in your Professional Success?
13. What is the role of "spirituality" in your work life?
E. How are the pros and cons of your issue balancing out?
1. Advice for someone embarking on a new career adventure?
2. Why do organizations need managers AND leaders?
3. If better leadership produces better results why don't more companies have a formal leadership development program in place?
4. Strategic planning (for small businesses)
5. Knowledge is power. Information is gold. Giving away either of them too soon is just plain stupid. Why?
F. What are the "Powers That Be" saying?
1. Best book to read while on a business trip?
2. In a world driven by commerce and profit, what does it take to keep an eye on taking care of people?
3. Help Me Understand the Need to Be Right
4. According to you, what is Success? Whom do you consider as a successful Person? Are you Successful?
5. What do you consider to be appropriate ways of responding to unexpected events?
6. Would you give a special treatment to your staff who is pregnant?
7. How would you want to be approached by someone who is looking for a job?
8. How do you inspire passion and real loyalty in your organization?
9. What is the best way to fire someone?
10. Are you aware of nonviolent communication?
11. Are you happy?
12. Do you believe in the bell curve of intelligence and do you think it shapes whether people are happy?
13. How does one find happiness in the workplace?
G. What is your real agenda?
1. How can I raise a total of 200.000.000 euro for investments in the energy sector in Africa. The money will be used for leveraged finance. How much?
2. What is more important Money or Power?
3. WHY: Do we have two faces?
4. How do you know when you are deceiving yourself?
5. WHY: Is integrity really important?
6. You Only Get One Choice On This, Just One Please!
H. What facts and reasons are you contending with?
1. Anecdotal evidence: worthwhile or worthless, when compared with metrics and statistics? Which do you use more in your business?
2. Are you playing with a full deck when you argue for change?
3. When you contend with others about judgments based on facts and reasons, what counterfeit arguments have you run into?
4. What do you believe to be true, but cannot prove?
5. How do you determine the truth?
6. DISPUTATION: Is disputation the best way to focus participants in change management? (Disputation)
7. Questions and Answers on the Decision-Maker’s Path...
I. What insights and oversights are emerging?
1. WHY: When it comes to trust, trust your gut.
2. What is your definition of creativity?
3. Is the act of deciding an act of being, of knowing, of doing, or making?
4. The proverbial silver bullet -- does it exist?
5. Where do ideas come from?
6. Have you ever had a prophetic dream or vision?
7. If "legally" given a choice...
8. A personal question: What is one of the most memorable events in your life?
9. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "High Noon"?
10. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life"?
11. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "Witness"?
12. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "Experiment in Terror"?
J. How are you going to tell your decision?
1. What's your brand?
2. How do you effectively integrate strategic and tactical planning?
3. How should September 11th be memorialized?
4. If you had 15 to 20 minutes of radio time to speak to people about making change and being whole, what would you say? What would you emphasize?
5. PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT: Do you have one you want to share?
6. Values Statement
7. Mission Statement
8. Purpose Statement
9. Vision Statement
10. Do you have a novel in you about decision-making?
11. What makes a movie trailer Great?
12. What advice would you have for a new president of a nonprofit board of directors?
13. What issues do you want your children to hear your decisions about before you die?
14. Alphabetical List of Blogs
15. Alphabetical List of Books for Decision-Makers
K. What are you willing to risk to gain what you can only hope for with your answer?
1. Controversy: Unpredictability vs. Consistency (Yin vs. Yang)
2. When did you know you were committed?
3. In change management, is anything supposed to be hidden or is it better to be fully transparent in your approach?
4. What is the secret to overcoming moral schizophrenia?
5. If you really believe in YOUR god how can you live with people who don't share your views?
6. Are efforts to manage change effectively limited by where the truth that lies in the plurality of the world's organized and institutional religions?
7. Worldwide percentage of Adherents by Religion
8. Comparing World Religions
9. RELIGION: What's So Great About Christianity? (Disputation)
L. What is signaling you that the decision you discern is the right one?
1. WHY: Is Humility Really Powerful?
10. Greatest invention/theory of all time and why?
11. What makes you Unique? And, after all, what makes you so Generic as all the others?
12. Role of Spirituality in your Professional Success?
13. What is the role of "spirituality" in your work life?
E. How are the pros and cons of your issue balancing out?
1. Advice for someone embarking on a new career adventure?
2. Why do organizations need managers AND leaders?
3. If better leadership produces better results why don't more companies have a formal leadership development program in place?
4. Strategic planning (for small businesses)
5. Knowledge is power. Information is gold. Giving away either of them too soon is just plain stupid. Why?
F. What are the "Powers That Be" saying?
1. Best book to read while on a business trip?
2. In a world driven by commerce and profit, what does it take to keep an eye on taking care of people?
3. Help Me Understand the Need to Be Right
4. According to you, what is Success? Whom do you consider as a successful Person? Are you Successful?
5. What do you consider to be appropriate ways of responding to unexpected events?
6. Would you give a special treatment to your staff who is pregnant?
7. How would you want to be approached by someone who is looking for a job?
8. How do you inspire passion and real loyalty in your organization?
9. What is the best way to fire someone?
10. Are you aware of nonviolent communication?
11. Are you happy?
12. Do you believe in the bell curve of intelligence and do you think it shapes whether people are happy?
13. How does one find happiness in the workplace?
G. What is your real agenda?
1. How can I raise a total of 200.000.000 euro for investments in the energy sector in Africa. The money will be used for leveraged finance. How much?
2. What is more important Money or Power?
3. WHY: Do we have two faces?
4. How do you know when you are deceiving yourself?
5. WHY: Is integrity really important?
6. You Only Get One Choice On This, Just One Please!
H. What facts and reasons are you contending with?
1. Anecdotal evidence: worthwhile or worthless, when compared with metrics and statistics? Which do you use more in your business?
2. Are you playing with a full deck when you argue for change?
3. When you contend with others about judgments based on facts and reasons, what counterfeit arguments have you run into?
4. What do you believe to be true, but cannot prove?
5. How do you determine the truth?
6. DISPUTATION: Is disputation the best way to focus participants in change management? (Disputation)
7. Questions and Answers on the Decision-Maker’s Path...
I. What insights and oversights are emerging?
1. WHY: When it comes to trust, trust your gut.
2. What is your definition of creativity?
3. Is the act of deciding an act of being, of knowing, of doing, or making?
4. The proverbial silver bullet -- does it exist?
5. Where do ideas come from?
6. Have you ever had a prophetic dream or vision?
7. If "legally" given a choice...
8. A personal question: What is one of the most memorable events in your life?
9. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "High Noon"?
10. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life"?
11. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "Witness"?
12. What insight about change and decision-making do you see portrayed in the movie "Experiment in Terror"?
J. How are you going to tell your decision?
1. What's your brand?
2. How do you effectively integrate strategic and tactical planning?
3. How should September 11th be memorialized?
4. If you had 15 to 20 minutes of radio time to speak to people about making change and being whole, what would you say? What would you emphasize?
5. PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT: Do you have one you want to share?
6. Values Statement
7. Mission Statement
8. Purpose Statement
9. Vision Statement
10. Do you have a novel in you about decision-making?
11. What makes a movie trailer Great?
12. What advice would you have for a new president of a nonprofit board of directors?
13. What issues do you want your children to hear your decisions about before you die?
14. Alphabetical List of Blogs
15. Alphabetical List of Books for Decision-Makers
K. What are you willing to risk to gain what you can only hope for with your answer?
1. Controversy: Unpredictability vs. Consistency (Yin vs. Yang)
2. When did you know you were committed?
3. In change management, is anything supposed to be hidden or is it better to be fully transparent in your approach?
4. What is the secret to overcoming moral schizophrenia?
5. If you really believe in YOUR god how can you live with people who don't share your views?
6. Are efforts to manage change effectively limited by where the truth that lies in the plurality of the world's organized and institutional religions?
7. Worldwide percentage of Adherents by Religion
8. Comparing World Religions
9. RELIGION: What's So Great About Christianity? (Disputation)
L. What is signaling you that the decision you discern is the right one?
1. WHY: Is Humility Really Powerful?
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