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13th Nov, 2012

Ends to Ends Strategic Process

By |2023-05-05T20:08:16-04:00November 13th, 2012|

  Chapters: Overview Ends to Interpretation Interpretations to Strategic Planning Planning to Action Ends Reporting Communicating Ends Accomplishment     Note: Click to view all chapters        

20th Mar, 2019

Find An Expert

By |2023-04-17T15:21:03-04:00March 20th, 2019|

We all go further when we go together Our consultants help you operate better, so your impact is greater. As a team, we bring on-the-ground experience, practical know-how, and a sense of collegiality to our co-op community. Our collaborative structure allows you to benefit from the combined expertise of the Columinate team: you get access to decades of proven experience that transcends community [...]

29th Jul, 2010

Building a Successful Board-GM Relationship

By |2023-05-05T20:21:43-04:00July 29th, 2010|

Presented by Art Sherwood & Todd Wallace CBLD Board Consultants   Panelists Amy Holt - Board President Lexington Co-op Market Buffalo, NY Rose Marie Klee - Board President Wheatsville Food Co-op Austin, TX George Huntington - GM Bloomingfoods Bloomington, IN Lori Burge - Development Mgr. People's Food Co-op Portland, OR    

1st Nov, 2011

Building a Positive Board Performance Culture 2 of 2

By |2023-05-05T20:33:36-04:00November 1st, 2011|

Building a positive board performance culture takes continuous work and vigilance on the part of the board. Part I explored the vital concepts of Shared Understanding of the Job of the Board & Shared Expectations for Board Performance, but every year boards have an election and end up with a ‘new’ board. This provides the board with the opportunity to take advantage of a [...]

6th Nov, 2010

Building a Positive Board Performance Culture 1 of 2

By |2023-05-05T20:21:30-04:00November 6th, 2010|

Imagine a board that moves positively forward with a shared understanding of board purpose; following their own words about how they will operate and doing so in a way that respects individual diversity and voice, on the way to making decisions as a unified and intentional whole. Boards that do this over the long haul have built a Positive Board Performance Culture (PBPC) and [...]

15th Jul, 2011

Cooperative Strategic Leadership Article

By |2023-05-05T20:34:36-04:00July 15th, 2011|

By Art Sherwood 157 November - December - 2011 There has been much discussion, debate and downright argument about the role of the board in the strategic process of our co-ops. "Isn't that getting into operations? Aren't our hands tied by our governance system? Isn't "strategy" a taboo word to raise in the board room since that is supposed to be the general manager's [...]

14th Apr, 2022

Art Sherwood Reimagines the Strategic Planning Process

By |2023-05-05T20:05:14-04:00April 14th, 2022|

After seeing how the co-op world has shifted away from in-person events during the pandemic, Columinate consultant and leadership strategist Art Sherwood wants to leverage the lessons he learned over the last two years to help co-op general managers be more strategic about multi-year planning. Sherwood has recently launched the Cooperative Strategic Leadership (CSL) program, an annual subscription course that utilizes different modalities to help co-op leaders build practical plans that are meant to be put into action every day.

7th Sep, 2016

Connecting the Dots: Strategic Board Leadership in Action

By |2023-05-05T20:06:52-04:00September 7th, 2016|

By Thane Joyal 185 July-Aug 2016 The future is unknowable. Or is it?  Courageous leadership relies in large measure on wise choices. In his entertaining novels, Robert Parker often references the military strategist Clausewitz for the proposition that you should “plan not for what you think your enemy will do, but rather for what your enemy can do.” Wise leadership, in other words, requires [...]

16th Nov, 2014

Reinventing our Cooperative Democracy: A Conversation

By |2023-05-05T20:07:43-04:00November 16th, 2014|

By Art Sherwood, Todd Wallace 175 November-December 2014 In 2013, the International Cooperative Alliance, in its “Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade,” identified the elevating of participation as a key component of its 2020 Vision for more and stronger cooperatives. The “Blueprint” states that, “Democratic member participation is the best-known feature of the co-operative way of doing business and a major part of what characterizes [...]

4th Jan, 2014

Four Pillars of Cooperative Governance

By |2023-05-05T20:30:39-04:00January 4th, 2014|

By Marilyn Scholl, Art Sherwood 170 January - February 2014 Great leaders demonstrate how to be a force for good in local communities and beyond. Our cooperative heroes—the Rochdale Pioneers—were striking weavers who opened a grocery co-op in 1844 in Rochdale, England, to help themselves and others get free from indebtedness to the company store. The Pioneers asked and answered some compelling questions: Shouldn’t [...]

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