Organizational Effectiveness
Who You Hire Is Your Mission
Three candidates for a parish administrator role. The parish hires the easy one. Six months later, the role isn't working. Here's why - and how to stop it.
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Mission
The Mission Statement for the Parish Secretary You Are Trying to Hire
Two parish secretaries on day one - one a stranger, one in the pews for twenty years - both fail the same way. The mission statement is why. And the hire you're trying to make is the second half.
Technology
The Question Before the System
Two institutions, two different technology failures, the same underlying mistake. The question before the system turns out to have four parts. And a fifth.
Organizational Effectiveness
The Meeting Where Nothing Was Decided
The meeting runs long. Everyone shares updates. Good conversation happens. And then no decision is actually made - because nobody in the room owns the discipline.
Mission
The Sentence a Catholic Institution Can Speak with One Voice
Most Catholic institutions can answer what they exist to do, richly and honestly - and differently from every seat. The question is whether they have woven them into one.
Transitions
What Ad Alta has become
Ad Alta has become advisory and consulting for Catholic institutions - technology, mission, and organizational effectiveness. Here is what changed and why.
Reflections
What the Wait Actually Buys You
Two expected payoffs don't materialize when you wait to ship something whole. Three quieter ones actually do. On what the wait actually buys you.
Reflections
What I'm Not Doing This Week
Last week I promised a new offering would open for booking today. It isn't. Here's the decision behind the delay - and why the delay is itself the essay.
Reflections
The Long Middle
Last week I wrote about the two ways honest people answer the identity question wrong - the role trap and the wound trap. A lot of you wrote back. Some of you s
Reflections
What I Couldn't See Then
When I first took a Director role at Adobe, I thought I knew what I was saying yes to. I didn't. On the two traps that catch honest people in a career transition - and what the identity question actually wants.
Identity
The Question Underneath
He sat down and told me he thought he was done climbing. He wasn't sure he was allowed to say that. What surfaced next changed how I think about every career decision - my own included.
