Category Archives: Leadership

Leadership. And Community Building. And Hockey…

Community benefit groups of all kinds – traditional nonprofits and government offices and social enterprises – are all taught the benefits of running social change efforts like a business. But what happens when we throw all that out the window and run those efforts like… hockey? In this month’s 3 minute video, Creating the FutureContinue Reading

Change the Conversation, Change the World

Ask people what power they have to change the world, and the answer is almost always, “Me? I’m just one person – and not an important person at that…” At the end of February, a group of those average, ordinary people gathered to learn together about creating change “from the middle.” These were not leadersContinue Reading

When Values are a Verb

In Creating the Future’s immersion courses, one of the posters that greets participants is the one to the left here – Values as a Verb. Put simply, values are nothing but empty words if they are not put into action. At its August 2012 board meeting, the board of Creating the Future therefore discussed theContinue Reading