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Poverty Management vs Poverty Reduction
Our communities are organized to manage growing poverty. They are not organized to reducepoverty. Every community spends a lot of money to help people manage crises . A mayor in a Utahcommunity once told me that 90% of the 911 calls came from a relatively small but...
A Comprehensive Approach to Poverty
Our nation’s economy was designed by settlers who came from countries with economic systems that included plutocracies, castes, feudal systems, and slavery. They all had in common a belief that a few deserve to be wealthy and that almost everyone else should be poor....
Shifting the Mindset on Poverty: Part 3 of 3
Three more bullet points to finish off the previous blog post, “So, at the risk of sounding overly simplistic about how to fix a problem that we have spent trillions of dollars not solving since the War on Poverty was launched 50-plus years ago, let me break it down...
Shifting the Mindset on Poverty: Part 2 of 3
So, at the risk of sounding overly simplistic about how to fix a problem that we have spent trillions of dollars not solving since the War on Poverty was launched 50-plus years ago, let me break it down in this way: ● Get over the idea that “the poor will always be...
Shifting the Mindset on Poverty: Part 1 of 3
The United States has the largest GDP on earth, estimated at $18 trillion. For perspective, China is the second-largest at about $11 trillion; Russia has an estimated GDP less than the state of Texas, and North Korea’s economy is smaller than Vermont’s. As Warren...
Learning Agendas for Yourself and Others
Refining your Personal Learning Agenda We are each having a certain level of impact on the world around us. TheTransformational Leadership approach assumes we are ready and eager to make amore significant impact in order to bring about the vision for our life and the...
Learning to Achieve your Vision
It’s stunning to me what kind of impact even one person can have if they have the right passion,perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.-Steve Case When Moses caught his vision of a promised land and then aligned the masses to joinhim, he had to...
Connecting with your Vision for Change
What is Your Story? If you want to predict your future, listen to your conversations. What story are you telling yourself and others? Are you taking yourself and others into the future you want—or the future you don’t want? Your vision must be connected to your...
Building Intentional Community and Appreciative Culture
Building all three types of social capital requires diligence to support people through the four stages of any successful relationship. In the honeymoon phase, people have inspiring but unrealistic expectations based on some form of the Drama Triangle, e.g., I will be...
Relational Strategy for Poverty Reduction
A Poverty Reduction System will need to include a powerful relational strategy in order for people to take full advantage of transactional programs. Relational strategies strengthen the social capital of people who want to move out of poverty and into economic...
Aligning with the Right People for Change
It’s stunning to me what kind of impact even one person can have if they have the right passion,perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.-Steve Case I have led Circles USA through a series of multiple-year Transformational Cycles.Although I...
Tapping into your Vision for Change
In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision. -Dalai Lama Perhaps you have never taken the time to write down or record on video exactly howyou want to live your life. It can be an immensely powerful and satisfying process.Your vision is...
Your Next Plan to Change the World
What is true for each of us that no matter how great your life is and how large your contribution, there is even more potential awaiting us. By claiming the next chapter of your life as the one in which you listen even more attentively to your heart’s desire and act...
Create a World that Works for All
If you watch the “news”, it is easy to assume that humanity is devolving rather thanmoving forward in its evolution. To create a world that works for everyone, we need toplug our precious personal energy into solutions rather than the presentation ofproblems that...
Master the Seasons of Transformational Change
Nature’s four seasons support a constant Transformational Cycle of birth and death. We are a part of nature and therefore integrally connected to Transformational Cycles, whether we see it or not. Consciously and mindfully engaging in the Transformational Cycle below...