the devil’s advocates
by A personal note from me: Folks all over the Central District, Seattle, and beyond are mourning the tragic murder of D’Vonne Pickett, Jr. D’Vonne and his wife KeAnna started The …
Tag: vision
things to read: october
No new post this week. Instead, here are a few things I’ve read recently that I want to share with you. There’s short teaser excerpt from each article. This was …
let’s build a cooperative, step 1: collect information, clarify needs, and assemble your founding members
This is the first step in my series on how to create a cooperative. I’ll link to each post here as it’s written. In my last post, I combined information …
understanding critical liberation theory
Last month I led a training where I invited attendees to imagine their future. I adapted a visioning exercise described by Tanuja Jaegernauth on a recent podcast. The exercise itself …
a vision for the future, part 2
Another week, another horrifying massacre. Any one of these events should have been enough to grind our country to a halt. Instead, there have been 212 mass shootings in america …
a vision for the future
For the last year I worked on the local health department’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy. This is the third pandemic I’ve worked at a public health agency, and I’m grateful to …
map the future: strategic plans and visions
Most of the companies I’ve worked for have had a strategic plan. These plans run the spectrum between incremental and ornamental. Some get by with unambitious tweaks to last year’s …
changing the wind
One of my strengths at work is creativity. I enjoy coming up with new ideas and different approaches to problems. Some of these ideas are pretty out there! When I …