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Project Management: 6 Steps To Creating A Successful RASCI Chart

The August, 2009 edition of our newsletter The J-Stroke introduced the RASCI tool as a means of discussing and clarifying roles/responsibilities in any organizational project or initiative. If you don't know RASCI and haven't read the J-Stroke, you'll want to read the following excerpt to get caught up. Otherwise, skip to ...

Shared Leadership Meets The Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest

In mid-June, The Canoe Group and friends spent a weekend on the Oregon Coast. We entered a team in the annual Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest. We loved being with our friends and we built this totally cool and totally transitory thing. We learned a lot together. The shared leadership of the ...

Many Spaces: Practicing the Art of Collaboration

Last week, The Canoe Group produced the Oregon Arts Summit 2009 for the Oregon Arts Commission, titled “The Art of Collaboration.” A standing-room-only crowd of over 300 participants converged on the Tiger Woods Center of the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton. The Summit design was grounded in concepts from ...

Oregon Arts Summit 2009: Important Links

Last week, The Canoe Group produced the Oregon Arts Summit 2009 for the Oregon Arts Commission, themed “The Art of Collaboration”. We anticipate expanding this list of links to the Oregon Arts Commission site and the content from the event in the next few weeks, so look for updates below. For those ...

Social Media: 4 Very Different Perspectives, Part 4

I did not expect this. Last year, my college age daughter found out that her boyfriend was leaving her because he changed his “relationship status” on Facebook. This is very bad behavior… but now within the range of normal (though still impolite) for Facebook. Likewise 5 years ago, I did ...

Social Media: 4 Very Different Perspectives, Part 3

photo credit: daveynin I recently Googled “social networking for dummies” and discovered – no surprise – a wealth of resources. Remember the good folks that brought us “DOS for Dummies” in 1991? They now offer “Facebook for Dummies” and a host of other titles to help us navigate the brave ...

Social Media: 4 Very Different Perspectives, Part 2

photo credit: stevendepolo I bought my first computer in middle school using paper route money, a stylish and trusty Radio Shack TRS-80. It's kind of strange that I remember the model number of my first computer. I exercised my own computer geekdom by learning early programming languages like Fortran. And by ...

Social Media: 4 Very Different Perspectives, Part I

Walking our dog Derby early this morning I noticed how familiar our neighborhood is. We’ve lived here for 20 years. I can name which kids grew up in which house, know what plants are coming up next in which gardens, and remember where the birds roost. It’s comforting to know the ...

Social Media: A Unique Perspective

photo credit: woodleywonderworks It would have been hard to make it through this past Presidential election season without hearing mention of, or experiencing firsthand, how Social Media revolutionized the way in which political candidates engaged people at the grass roots level around a common purpose. And as we look to our ...

Dancing at the Edge of Chaos: Finding Opportunity in the Unexpected

On Sunday evening, about an hour after sunset, I celebrated the first night of Chanukah. I set my menorah in the window, lit the candles and chanted the blessings. And, for the first time in many years, I spent it alone. I hadn’t planned it that way. I had planned ...