Hildy Gottlieb You can’t fight the system. The system is stacked against us. Systems change is hard. Because a big part of Creating the Future’s work is about changing systems, we thought it would be helpful to define what we mean by “systems” and why we focus there. The following combines … Read more
The July 2016 Creating the Future board meeting will focus on legal compliance. • While Creating the Future is in transition from one organizational structure to the next, are we remaining in compliance with the law? With our own bylaws? • If not, what will we do about that? Warning: If you’re thinking this is a … Read more
“Building the plane while we’re flying it.” That’s the expression often used to describe what it looks and feels like at an organization that is scaling, and Creating the Future is no exception. This year in our education sphere, we’ve been building a whole new curriculum while simultaneously nurturing the very faculty who will teach … Read more
The following expands upon an excerpt from the article Catalytic Thinking: A Framework for Creating and Scaling Powerful Results. Practices that Bring Out the Best in People in Specific (Often Difficult) Situations Sometimes people are just being people – whether that is at a staff meeting or the dinner table. Then there are times when people … Read more
There are many opportunities to teach at Creating the Future, all of which center around what it looks like when we put Catalytic Thinking into action. The Continuum of Potential is one aspect of Catalytic Thinking that especially informs our education programs. The Continuum is a framework that helps us know where people are in reaching for … Read more
What would it take for workplace culture to bring out the best in everyone – employees, customers, patrons, investors – in any organization or company of any kind? And what would it take to scale that as the organization grows? These are critical questions for Creating the Future’s efforts to reinvent our organizational structure to … Read more
Last fall, as we set out to launch a new online curriculum at Creating the Future, Dimitri posted this post asking for input about possible technology platforms for teaching these classes. Many people responded to that post, some in the comments, many more privately. Some suggested specific platforms, while others helped deepen our search by … Read more
The natural tendency of people who are asked for their advice is to give it. That natural tendency is multiplied when the person being asked is perceived to be an expert – a teacher, a manager, a consultant, a parent. In the majority of cases when we’re asked for advice, the problem to be solved … Read more
What does it take for course content to create a shift in the students who are learning that material? The faculty team at Creating the Future is at that “developing content” point in building our new Catalytic Listening course. To guide that effort, we are using Catalytic Strategy to ask two core questions: 1) What do we … Read more
On January 11th of 2016, Creating the Future’s board and community members took the leap; we made the commitment to restructure this organization, so that we are modeling what life could look like if our mission were accomplished. What would organizations be like if they were structured to bring out the best in everyone – employees, … Read more