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		<title>Planet Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Gordezky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with the devastation and suffering in Haiti, this past week saw the passing of Canadian poet C. K.  Page. Page received a variety of tributes and accolades over her long career, including having her poem Planet Earth selected by the United Nations for its 2000 Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry reading series. The poem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=51&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shadow and Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to talk about confronting the shadow side with courage. In a leadership program that I co-facilitate we ask people to reflect on what they are a “force for” in their leadership work. This means reaching deeply inside to find and name the part of us that fiercely stands up for what we believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=36&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Its a Wonder-full Life&#8230;.in Bhutan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>odthinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly a year ago, I had the good fortune of being on the faculty of an innovative social change  program, commissioned by an International NGO  (SNV) based in The Hague.  During one of my long and somewhat lonely business trips through Asia I was invited to a small birthday party in downtown Thimpu, (population [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=28&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bridging Divides</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Gordezky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collaboration among a diverse range of stakeholders is now widely regarded as essential for addressing the most pressing, complex social and business issues. The reasons for this rise of interest in collaboration across sectors are fairly clear: no one actor, sector or group possess sufficient knowledge, resources, skills or energy to successfully counter the complex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=27&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deciphering that Burning Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Gordezky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 15, 2008 was the launch of the Canadian Organization Development Institute’s (CODI) first training in organization development and change. This CODI initiative is a twenty-day certificate program, and as far as we know, this is the first privately run organization development and change training program in Canada. Ten experienced and eager people signed up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=26&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows and Light:  The &#8220;Art&#8221; of Working at the Edges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>odthinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I face the Threshold of 2008 I am in a reflective mood. Here is a short essay I originally wrote to include in a scrapbook of reflections we are exchanging with our colleagues in the Canadian Organization Development Institute. I hope it will inspire you to reflect on your &#8220;art&#8221; too. For me, “art” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=25&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>results and intimacy</title>
		<link>http://edges.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/results-and-intimacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Gordezky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your life is anything like mine, I often feel like I&#8217;m engaged in endless activities: clients to call; books to read; meetings to plan and facilitate; lawn to mow, house to maintain, writing to do; family time, yoga classes, haircut, doctor visits, and so on. It is challenging to find the thread connecting it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=24&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>from the plains can you imagine mountains?</title>
		<link>http://edges.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/from-the-plains-can-you-imagine-mountains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>odthinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One evening, a few months ago, I was sitting on the sheltered roof of a campement in the Dogon Country, Mali, on the edge of the great Sahara desert. As the thick (and still burning hot) night descended, my African companions began to quiz me about Canada and Canadian ways of life. Finally one asked: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=23&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mountain and The Plain</title>
		<link>http://edges.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/the-mountain-and-the-plain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Gordezky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Southern Ontario the landscape is fairly flat. Rolling hills are as high as it gets, except for the occasional outcrop along the Niagara Escarpment. This is far different from the landscape of Southern California where rugged mountains were very much part of my life and perspective when I was growing up. Recently I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=22&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Founder&#8217;s Trap &#8211; Getting In and Getting Out</title>
		<link>http://edges.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/the-founders-trap-getting-in-and-getting-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Gordezky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent experiences with two highly effective executive directors and the challenges they are facing with their organizations has led me back to Dr. Ichak Adizes&#8217; book of, Corporate Lifecycles. In this book, Dr. Adizes writes of the predictable patterns of development organizations go through. In particular, I was drawn back to Dr. Adizes comments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edges.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1195353&amp;post=18&amp;subd=edges&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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