Category Archives: accountability

(Issue #476) Red Team Analysis

Posted on July 7, 2019 by stevepiscitelli

Reaching critically reviewed, dissected, and discussed decisions may require creative thinking about how to do it. Critical thinking, though, is not a synonym for creative thinking. I received a reminder about the simple eloquence of critical thinking during a recent … Continue reading →

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(Issue #463) Inside Out

Posted on April 7, 2019 by stevepiscitelli

What are your prearrangements with yourself when it comes to your stated priorities? Consider a significant goal you have. One that you claim as a top priority for your life. Satisfied with your progress? If yes, congratulations. If not, consider … Continue reading →

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(#457) Responsibility: Important Questions to Consider

Posted on February 24, 2019 by stevepiscitelli

This week’s blog post draws on the fifth core value from Community as a Safe Place to Land (2019): Act with RESPONSIBILITY toward others and ourselves. Our personal dreams and challenges give us direction. Our actions (or inaction) create our reality. The … Continue reading →

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(#450) Respectful Relationships

Posted on January 6, 2019 by stevepiscitelli

Respectful relationships help build lasting, meaningful, accepting, loving, nurturing, and sustaining communities. As I wrote Community as a Safe Place to Land, I had the opportunity to speak with transformational people in communities from Savannah, Georgia to Celebration, Florida.  Each … Continue reading →

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(#442) Community Building: Beyond Why to How

Posted on November 11, 2018 by stevepiscitelli

The question, in my mind, moves beyond why we need community to how we go about building and sustaining it. While dichotomies can be simplistic, they can also help frame a conversation. When you seek a community, toward which end … Continue reading →

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(#440) What Matters Now?

Posted on October 28, 2018 by stevepiscitelli

When you set your goals you said to yourself, “These matter to me.” As you review where you have been and where you want to go, ask yourself, “What matters now?”  And then act on it. While we set goals … Continue reading →

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(#438) You May Not be the Gift in the Room

Posted on October 14, 2018 by stevepiscitelli

Effective collaboration rests on the ability to share the stage. In the early 1990s, the public high school where I taught created a committee called the “Shared Decision-Making Committee.”  I was tapped as its first chair.  The stated mission of … Continue reading →

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(#437) Your Meeting Deserves a K.I.S.S.

Posted on October 7, 2018 by stevepiscitelli

Keep It Simple and Short Do an internet search for “effective meetings” and you will find a few suggestions. About 185 million. Is there a “secret sauce” for an effective meeting? A few questions to consider as you plan your … Continue reading →

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(#435) Community Requires Respectful Communication

Posted on September 23, 2018 by stevepiscitelli

You better think. A few of the reviewers for my forthcoming book, Community as a Safe Place to Land, noted that a community will be hard pressed to exist without respectful communication. Respectful. Indicative of politeness or deference. Communication. Communication … Continue reading →

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(#423) Poverty

Posted on July 1, 2018 by stevepiscitelli

When communities build walls to separate their people (due to a poverty of understanding or compassion), the lack can seem insurmountable.  “The world tends to define poverty and riches simply in terms of economics. But poverty has many faces—weakness, dependence, … Continue reading →

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