Writing on Leadership

Here you’ll find essays, book and book chapter links that I wrote when I was running my consulting firm ReVisions LLC, now recast as ReVisions, an umbrella for writing and supporting other writers’ creative endeavors.  

Books and Book Chapters

Order my book, Strategic Planning Guidebook, How to Plan, Stay Nimble, and Keep Momentum from Shires Press.
This step-by-step guide shows you how to create a clear, nimble strategic plan. 

“Frameworks, tools, and leadership for responding to strategic alliance challenges,”  in Leading and Managing in the Social Sector, Strategies for Advancing Human Dignity and Social Justice, edited by Tirmizi, S. A. and Vogelsang, J. D. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publishing International, 2016).

Strategic Planning Guidebook, 2005. This book is out of print.

Journal Articles

Creating adaptive leaders and organizations: advantages of the new Kolb Learning Cycle and Styles Inventory as compared with the MBTI (2014). OD Practitioner, 46(2): 10-18. Written with Kay Peterson. [PDF]

Overcoming hidden barriers to board diversity and inclusion  (2013). Research Report. Washington, D.C.: BoardSource. [PDF]

A framework and tools to strengthen strategic alliances (2011). OD Practitioner, 43(2): 22-27. [PDF]

Decisions: what, who, how, when? (2010). Vermont Employee Owner News. [PDF]

Sensemaking as a tool in working with complexity  (2009). OD Practitioner, 41(2): 19-24. [PDF]

How leaders can create strategic know-how (2007). Vermont Business Center Quarterly Newsletter. [PDF] 

Other Essays

Ideas for Leaders Blog – 2014-2017

Ideas for Leaders Newsletter Archive – 2005-2013