Creative questions accompany and guide us as we peer into the mist of disruption, complexity, and chaos. Good questions prompt us in the pursuit of what it means to build an enduring enterprise and what form future value might take. But good questions also require...
This may be the best phrase I have heard all month. Church as a verb. The Network leader who said it, said it with the best of intentions. He was responding to a story of God showing up, in the least likely of places and in the most unexpected ways, for someone who...
“Everyone is trying to find the quick, easy solution,” I heard from one network member recently. “It doesn’t exist.”When things are hard, we look for something that will make the pain go away fast, like pulling our hand out of the fire. But sometimes the hard points...
I had a conversation with a Network member the other day about margin stacking. Margin stacking is the cost or profit margin that each member of the supply chain contributes to bring a product to the end user. That’s the official definition. I am thinking about an...
I think this statement perfectly sums up much of what I have been hearing in the Network recently. While the last year has been a time of tremendous creativity, not all of the ideas that we come up with are good ones, and I would suggest even good ideas can be too...
This statement comes from a Network member leading in higher education. Among all of the changes he and his constituents are currently experiencing, this is the primary one he is focused on. How does he know to focus on this? He knows because he spends time listening...
