Innovation? Got Questions?

Earth Day April 22, 2010

Trickling  Conditions at Kakabeka Falls

Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2010

Innovation?  Got The Questions?

(If you don't , here you go...)

The tasks of community leadership:  

• create a context that nurtures an alternative future,
• based on inclusiveness and hospitality,
• and initiate conversations that shift our experience ...
• How do  we bring people together?
•  What questions do we use to engage them?   Keep reading...

Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2010

How do you create community "Woohoo"?

read...Innovative Engagement?

5 Questions Can Change the Context

1.  How valuable an experience do you plan this to be?

2.  How much risk are you willing to take?

3.  How participative do you plan to be?

4.  To what extent are you invested in the well-being of the whole?

5.  What have I done to contribute to the very thing I want to change?

Curious by any chance? 

Want to learn more about innovative leadership and the conversations you lead?  More questions for your back pocket? 

Go to Peter Block on "restorative leadership" here:

http://www.peterblock.com/assets/Civic.pdf

What On Earth?

Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2010

How can I lead the way to eArtH dAy?

April 22

As we go about our everyday business, we don't notice the changes around us.  Who can remember the first time that a grocery store loaded our purchases into plastic bags.  When did the paper sacks disappear?  What about the first time you purchased bottled water?  What happened to the fountains in school hallways?  When computers were introduced, we were promised a "paperless society".  That didn't exactly happen.  Change just seems to creep in on cat's paws.  Suddenly, our world has transformed and subconsciously, so have our own patterns.  Sadly, many of us don't even notice that we are personally contributing to the destruction of our global environment.

eArtH dAy is a conscious effort to change the way we live and work. 

How can you lead a small portion of the effort with your family or on the job?  Yes, this is personal.

Feel free to distribute these websites widely!

Canadian info here: 

http://www.earthday.ca/pub/

Play Earthday Trivia with your kids here: 

http://www.earthday.ca/pub/resources/psas/print/EcoTriviaPSA.pdf

Clean Up the Coastline? 

See Wavelength Magazine which is challenging all of us to raise the bar on cleaning up our coastline and in return recognizes our efforts with great prizes. http://www.wavelengthmagazine.com/clean

Looking for stuff?  Need anything? Recycle for free here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thunderbayfreecycle/

We'll all learn more about our "state of the art" environment in Thunder Bay at our next CLD. 

*** Suggest ways that Leadership Thunder Bay can become greener - to take the lead for other community organizations and ourselves.

Send in your comments by clicking into www.xowhat.blogspot.com and posting your thoughts at the end of this blogpost.

Remember, time changes for next week! 

 Bus leaves at 8:20 am and returns for 5:30 pm.