The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. – John W.. Gardner Change and tension There is a tension in the natural exchange between equilibrium and change. On the one…
Recent throughts
Future-focused strategic planning: Corpus RIOS, Playing to Win, and Appreciative Inquiry
Writing lessons from Gandhi: Naming the blogging barriers
Falling out of love with personality through the Enneagram
Birthday reflections: My meaning of life year
Life as learning: Do it like Donkey Kong
Three lessons from Gandhi’s experiments in truth
How do you measure your self-esteem?
Want to boost your self-esteem? Find a mentor and be a mentor
A Vital Projex facilitation experience and the value of values
Speeding tickets and Kohlberg’s model of ethical decision making
Icebergs and goal setting behaviour: Does achievement define your self-worth?
Change your frame of reference with the Appreciative Inquiry 5D process
Changing the approach to change: Lessons from the eight principles of appreciative inquiry
Mindfulness defined: A resolution to consider
Change lessons from the Holden closure
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Mindfulness defined: A resolution to consider
Our happiness model explained, courtesy of Mikhail Csikszentmihaly
The importance of defining meaning in times of uncertainty
A four step model for communicating change and setting vision: Taking people from "here" to "there"
Gender inequality in Australia: It’s alive and well, mate
My Sideways Thoughts
Organisational ambidexterity: How to exploit and explore to survive
Future-focused strategic planning: Corpus RIOS, Playing to Win, and Appreciative Inquiry
Strategy focuses our attention and energy towards a defined purpose. Our strategies both filter out activities we should not be doing as well as constrain us to things we should be doing. Most business leaders…
Writing lessons from Gandhi: Naming the blogging barriers
This month marks over five years and 192 posts since I first hit publish on Sideways Thoughts. I find myself borrowing on Gandhi to help in my reflections. Gandhi shared about his approach to writing…
Falling out of love with personality through the Enneagram
We love our personality, and so we should. Our personality protects us from real or perceived threats, helps us achieve our ambitions, and generally allows us to survive. Our personality keeps us safe and in…
Birthday reflections: My meaning of life year
The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy What would you change in…
Life as learning: Do it like Donkey Kong
My affection for video games started early in life. Video game arcades of the early 80s were my sanctuary; a dark, bleeping, blinking holy den of wonder. For a single US quarter dollar, I could…
Three lessons from Gandhi’s experiments in truth
Is life a series of successes and failures, or an experiment? I invite you to reflect on your life over the past five years. Consider the key events that shaped your experience, that helped form…
How do you measure your self-esteem?
I am becoming increasingly aware of a tendency in society (or perhaps myself?) to associate self-worth with our performance or position. This can result in all sorts of defensive behaviours when people get under pressure…
Want to boost your self-esteem? Find a mentor and be a mentor
How we see ourselves is important. People who have higher self-esteem tend to be happier, and people with lower self-esteem tend to be more depressed. And yet simply telling someone they are awesome is not effective….
A Vital Projex facilitation experience and the value of values
The case for V.I.T.A.L. In my day job as a Management Consultant, I often have the pleasure of facilitating groups and teams. I thoroughly enjoy this part of my role and love bringing out the…
A little about me
I am Chad Renando. I am a husband and father, American and Australian.
My day job role is as a management consultant providing coaching, strategy development, and process mapping to build individual, team and organisational efficiency and effectiveness.
I believe in helping people realise their full potential within the organisations in which they serve. I believe that can only be done by challenging convention and taking a perspective that is sideways to the norm.
These are my thoughts.
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Learning of greatness from the pens of great men...
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