Welcome to An Unscripted Future

Today our communities face leadership challenges and opportunities which bring an increased perception of personal responsibility and risk.

This is a time when each of us must exercise leadership to diagnose shifting situations and engage others in designing interventions that are less about achieving pre-defined outcomes, than they are about moving forward, collaboratively, toward approximate goals in an environment of increased, but managed, conflict and uncertainty.

These cycles of assessment/diagnosis, intervention and evaluation, within ever-shortening time horizons, are increasingly becoming the hallmark of our times and I welcome conversations about their impact on our lives.

Welcome to An Unscripted Future.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Ready or Not?

Regardless of the interventions each of our communities might design, with corresponding roles for each of our CLP’s (Community Leadership Programs), we need to locate resources to make things happen, locally, and identify the barriers to our involvement, collectively. I’m not convinced that our program leaders are interested, able or willing to move this initiative forward, together...but time may permit us to find common ground and mutual objectives.

Because we are so spread out, in terms of readiness, situational status and geographic location, I wonder whether it will be possible to work together collectively…and, if so, what tools we might need to make it happen? I think on-line connectivity can support local initiatives and showcase resources and strategies that are promising and may be applied across communities...but I don't believe there's much (or any) support for examining these systems, yet. As our CLP program leaders meet next month and begin focusing on the issue with each other, there may be some progress in coming together with a cohesive strategy.


While we have experienced the same training, it doesn’t necessarily put us on the same page. We may need to look at the primary motivators for bringing each program on board and offer incentives to begin to locally address the issue collectively.

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