A Recipe for Massive Transformation

Combine strengths-based organizations with strengths-based media

Monday July 26, 2010
The topics of two upcoming events recently featured in our pages illustrate what we believe is a very powerful combination. Each story featured the use of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). First: in...

True Engagement Key to Increasing Productivity

Knowledge worker productivity biggest 21st century management challenge: Drucker

Monday July 19, 2010
Reports highlighting Canada’s dragging productivity provide us with a space to discuss what Peter F. Drucker defined as the greatest opportunity and challenge of this century: knowledge worker...

Expanding the Definition of Social Business

Monday July 12, 2010
When Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, his definition of social business gained widespread prominence through its ability to lift millions of people out of extreme poverty...

Making Questions Count

Monday July 5, 2010
Designing motivating and provocative questions is a skill we’ve been developing for years and feedback confirms the effort has been worth it. As generative journalists, we’ve adopted the Appreciate...

Want to Really Change the World? Make a Profit Solving Social Problems: Jason Saul

‘We need to move from a social contract mentality to a social capital market way of thinking,’ says Mission Measurement CEO

Friday July 30, 2010

A leading expert on strategy and performance measurement in the social sector is promoting a new organizational framework to solve social problems on a colossal scale.

Datron World Communications Skyrockets with Commitment to Servant Leadership

Book, Servant Leadership Institute to advance practice with as many corporate leaders as possible

Thursday July 29, 2010

A commitment to servant leadership at Datron World Communications has resulted in record growth and an organization devoted to spreading the practice.

Story Helped Homes Improve End-of-Life Practices: Administrator

More LTC homes implementing policies that see residents who have passed away leaving through front door

Friday July 30, 2010

The Ontario Long Term Care Association’s (OLTCA) Stakeholder News program has helped long-term care homes improve end-of-life practices, says Nancy Rooney, the administrator at Caressant Care McLaughlin Rd. in Lindsay.