Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Mark L. Vincent’
Making Use of Difficulty By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Difficulty in a Leader’s Third Turn Leaders in their Third Turn experience their share of difficulties—enough to know that difficulty is always present. Future value, succession, and legacy are created while traveling a long and challenging road, one a long-term leader cannot travel alone. This is the reason for Maestro-level Leaders. CLA is recruiting its next Maestro-level cohort so…
Read MoreTo Love What You Do By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Can an executive leader love an organization? Smarmy and pledged affection for spicy chicken sandwiches, toilet paper, or a preferred brand of coffee, which is not the definition of love in this question! Also, not in play is a type of pseudo-love that confuses the self with the object of affection. It is not an…
Read MoreThe Journey from Innovation to Dinosaur By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
It’s a Rapid Journey! It is always a journey! Cleaning out a storage room, we uncovered this wall-sized canvas with which I traveled the world years ago while the millennium was turning. My feet at the left end give you a sense of their size. The Post-it Note In its day, this tool was an innovation…
Read MoreYou Can’t Unsee This! By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Learning to Embrace What You Can’t Unsee There are simply things you can’t unsee. That is because you have the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. I do. We all do. How it Works This cognitive bias, also called the frequency illusion, is how we start noticing something everywhere once we’ve become aware of it. Perhaps it has been…
Read MoreTrace the Face By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Your Face and the Sculpting Journey in Emotional Intelligence What changed in photographs of your face across the decades? We aren’t talking about fashion or hairstyles here. And it isn’t so much the aging process, either! What in your interior spirit comes through from underneath your skin? WHAT I’VE SEEN IN ME In my youth…
Read MoreScapegoating By Mark L. Vincent
Watch When Succession, Continuity, and Scapegoating Collide Succession and continuity planning involve pervasive and adaptive change and can also be a time when scapegoating surfaces. A natural part of managing change at this level of complexity is anxiety. Anxiety launches people into pointing at others as the cause of their feelings. They point at individuals…
Read MoreThe Myth of Normal By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
What We Need to Know About Normal and Disciplined Thinking We can’t return to a new normal if we never left it. If leaders can (re)learn anything on this side of Pandemic Time, as Palestinians and Israelis murder each other, the threat of another war in Kosovo, and yet another deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, it is that the…
Read MoreA Mother’s Day Reflection By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Celebrating a Mother’s Lifelong Influence With this past Sunday’s Mother’s Day in mind, Maestro-level leaders Founder Dr. Mark L. Vincent wrote this reflection. Today we share it with you! It was initially written for the Maestro-level leader cohort participants that receive a brief, perspective-setting note each Sunday as one resource for the cadence of the…
Read MoreA SERMON FOR THE SEASONS BY DR. MARK L. VINCENT
A SERMON TO PREPARE FOR COMING AND MOVING ON It surprises many people who know me now that I preached itinerantly for thirty years — often a couple of original sermons each week. Preparing and sharing with groups, small and large, became like breathing. Inhale: Exhale: Respiration like this was and is holy work. ADVENT…
Read MoreThe Truth Inside the Johari Window By Dr. Mark L. Vincent
Can your successor design a Johari window? Family and colleagues know me to be a Johari window guy. When groups are stuck, quite often there are a couple of dynamics at cross-purposes. The Johari window is an easy tool to map out those dynamics and transform the conversation with deeper insight and a breakthrough. The…
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