Maestro-level leaders

05/07/2024

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05/02/2024

Learning to listen and learn teaches us how others listen and learn.
Some insight from the Mygrow North American Team.

When leaders take the time to listen and learn they get in touch with how others listen and learn. It's a path to grown one's leadership capacity.

03/02/2024

Perhaps you've been seeing some of the Mygrow videos we've been posting. We are gathering them into one place so that we have an ongoing repository.

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25/01/2024

Executive Thinking No. 27 - on executive compensation and why you don't want it to be a distraction.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/27-mercenary-behavior-mark-l-vincent-phd-epc-ufpcc

Some C-Suite advice from repeated experience: don't let your compensation become a distraction. Don't let it become a political issue within the organization.

18/01/2024

Executive Thinking No. 26 invited leaders to turn their not-going-anywhere circles into wheels.

No. 27 drops next week.



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08/12/2023

Maestro-level leaders are peer-based cohorts, particularly focused on accomplished executives seeking to build future value while working at business continuity and (their own) succession and legacy. Kristin Evenson, an all-star facilitator, calls the benefit of Maestro-level leader cohorts "camaraderie amidst ambiguity."

We give our take on peer-based advising in episode 41 of the Third turn Podcast. https://buff.ly/3RevXV7

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In this episode, Mark and Kristin unpack the concept of peer-based advising, why they’ve both long been deeply committed to it, and the unique value it offers leaders--especially at leadership’s Third Turn.

07/12/2023

Scapegoating is natural. That doesn't mean it is good.
A recent blog for Christian Leadership Alliance.

Scaptegoating can easily happen during times of succession and transitions. In this CLA Higher Thinking Blog find out how to discern it!

05/12/2023

Action or Force? Reflection or Delay?

When anxious about a process getting away from you do you force or delay further? Mark L. Vincent writes about the balance of action and reflection.

28/11/2023

Maestro-level leaders: The Bard speaks!

an AI bot from Google summarizes what Maestro-level leaders is.

21/11/2023

Time for less burnout!

Manager burnout is increasing. We need to do something! Mark L. Vincent reflects

20/11/2023

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I am told this is how our Mygrow friends gear up for each workday in Cape Town.

Our next introductory 1 hour workshop for Mygrow in North America (that includes you Bermuda, Canada, and Greenland) is Monday 27 November. We have room for a couple more persons who advise or lead companies.

You can register here: https://buff.ly/408dqxL

16/11/2023

Executive Thinking No.21 -- The masterpiece you paint.
A reflection on the last chapter of a leader's tenure from Mark L. Vincent.

And a brief review of John Grisham's latest book.....

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/22this-masterpiece-you-paint-mark-l-vincent-phd-epc-tzmgc

15/11/2023

Room remains in the 27 November introductory workshop for Mygrow. This one hour introduction is for a SMALL GROUP of organizational consultants, executive coaches and company executives interested in learning how to grow individual and collective emotional intelligence through a technology platform.

Register here: https://buff.ly/408dqxL

14/11/2023

What is an old dude doing growing his EQ? Watch the video.
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Some of my journey to grow my capacity for empathy, courtesy of Mygrow.
If you are a certified coach or organizational consultant who would like to consider adding Mygrow to your toolbox, please consider joining us for a one hour introductory workshop on Monday morning 27 November. You can register here: https://buff.ly/3QZenFJ

14/11/2023

Your EQ is showing!

Dawn Y Graber discusses emotional intelligence and its importance with Mark L. Vincent.

13/11/2023

Executive Thinking No.21 touched on whether work can be joy-full.
No. 22 comes out this Thursday.

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A note about this newsletter: LinkedIn might call this a newsletter, but a newsletter is not what this is. Here, you will find thoughts on being and thinking as an executive who links the world's future to an enterprise mission and its profitable operations.

12/11/2023

We are entering a time of year when some of us get serious about the next learning we want to do or even consider changing how we work.

If the Process Consulting approach is something that appeals to you, a Process Consulting credential is available in a concentrated, in-person course I'm facilitating on the Core Competencies of Process Consulting: 6-8 December 2024.

Details available here: https://buff.ly/3MDNp3Q
Registration is available here: https://buff.ly/3qXJAyP

Room remains for a few last-minute registrants.

11/11/2023

A reminder that we are engaged with a pastoral search process for a Central Illinois congregation. We would be delighted to connect with someone you think may be interested. Just direct message me, and we will get the conversation started.

09/11/2023

Ron Worman hosts the Great Conversations Podcast, one I really enjoy and one where I was recently privileged to be a guest, talking about Maestro-level leaders and the three turns of executive leadership.

‎Show The Great Conversation, Ep Learning, Seeing, and theThree Turns of a Leader - Nov 6, 2023

07/11/2023

Abe Lincoln gave a sh*t

Maestro-level leaders work for a better world long after they depart. A small and contrasting example from Abraham Lincoln and an urban insurance company.

02/11/2023

I am an Ireland rugby fan whose only consolation from the recent World Cup is that Ireland is the last team to have beaten South Africa, followed by a great display of their own Irish unity. See: https://buff.ly/3MmvLS4 to give that a listen.

That takes away nothing from South Africa and this wonderful story of uniting across historic racial divides as daunting problems must be faced rather than disintegrating into mass casualties. May this uniting fever infect us all!

I confess partiality here because our recently announced North American partnership with Mygrow links us to a group of people in Cape Town whose lives and livelihoods are dedicated to increasing emotional intelligence.

South Africans are savoring a second consecutive World Cup victory, producing a racial unity that even Hollywood couldn’t make up and an escape from the country’s troubles.

31/10/2023

Shared Leadership on the path to Succession Planning

Shared leadership helps to imagine, engage, and align for succession planning. Linda Milanowski-Wesdrop writes.

31/10/2023

When we developed the book Listening Helping Learning: the Core Competencies of Proceess Consulting on behalf of the Society for Process Consulting, I was mindful that a lot of one's listening skill begins by listening to one's mother. : -)

27/10/2023

The Three Turns of an Executive Leader. This white paper, written in preparation to launch Maestro-level leaders, walks through the arc of executive development. The Three Turns are also detailed in episode 2 of the Third Turn Podcast.

This collection of articles on the Three Turns grows from the Maestro-Level Leaders Initiative of Design Group International. A supporting podcast -- The Third Turn -- welcomes your subscription.

26/10/2023

Executive Thinking no.20 describes the flavor of fear

No.21 posts next Thursday.

If fear had flavor, mine would be sour. Others' are salted with profanity, Spiked with bitter, Or saccharine sweetened.

24/10/2023

Leading into fallow years

There are unique challenges for those who lead into & through an organization’s fallow years. But fallow can often yield greater fruitfulness longer term.

23/10/2023

"Send your boss a weekly one-pager with the status of your projects."

This, and a number of nuggets for anyone with a vision to grow their leadership acumen, can be found in this Rachel Feintzeig article in today's WSJ. I like this quote because that weekly one-pager staves off a multitude of meetings. Even if your boss doesn't read them, you'll have already focused your talking points for when. you have to repeat yourself.

Someone who wants to find their way to the C-Suite and be effective benefits from the cultivated habit of communicating upward. To a boss, to a board, to investors, to anyone who can shut you down with a cocked eyebrow.

Someone who wants to develop leadership in others, perhaps one's future successor, does well to expect a cadence of upward communication. It saves time in one-to-ones. Even more, the documentation trail it provides will speed up problem-solving when digging down into further detail is needed.

How to free yourself from office politics and bureaucracy, and get back to work.

21/10/2023

Over the years I've written a number of articles for the Christian Leadership Alliance. A week or so ago I announced the most recent one posted "The Myth of Normal."
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In doing so, I found that it is pretty easy to search for all of the postings for any of us who have been writing. People like Andrea Cupayan, Brian Simmons, Al Hearn, and Scott Rodin (with whom I'm privileged to serve on the board of the center for Stewardship Studies). Other voices like Gary Hoag, Tami Heim, Rob McKenna, and so many more.

Searching by name or subject yields so many treasures. Here is an example of what you can find if you search for what I've been privileged to post.

The CLA Higher Thinking Blog equips, inspires and challenges you to think higher for greater Kingdom outcomes.

17/10/2023

Spotting trends with a trend spotter

Kay Edwards and spidey sense, a tool that benefits Maestro-level leaders. Mark L. Vincent writes.

14/10/2023

Normal is a myth

a recent Christian Leadership Alliance Blog post, written in the horror of a new war in the Middle East.

In this CLA Higher Thinking Blog Post, Dr. Mark L. Vincents helps us release the idea of nromal and embrace diciplined thinking.