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A Different Perspective is an electronic publication produced by Perspective in Action, an Executive Coaching firm based in Kitchener, Ontario
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"Why would intelligent, family-oriented people overinvest in their work and fail to manage the most important organizations in their lives?"
 

"We don't think of families as organizations, and ourselves as the executives of those organizations."
 

"Every family needs a single, agreed-upon top priority, something it can rally around for unity and maximum impact."

 


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Cathy Shaughnessy 
Certified Executive Coach, Professional Speaker, Author of Cultivating Initiative in Your Staff. Cathy works with talented individuals who want to grow in their careers and with organizations that want to build strong leaders.
 
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From My Bookshelf
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family
by Patrick Lencioni  
 
Lencioni is a New York Times bestselling business author of seven books, including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. He has written or been featured in such publications as Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Leader to Leader.
Authors' Angle 

Lencioni's book is written as a "leadership fable". It's the story of a fictional family and its attempts to create order out of chaos - to manage family life with the same tried and true strategies that great businesses employ, such as determining:

  • core purpose and values
  • business definition
  • strategic goals
  • roles and responsibilities 
     

A Question of Perspective 
 
 What makes you
super-successful at work and how can you leverage that strategy at home?
 
The View from Here
Too often, we use our brillance at work and come home spent and totally exhausted. It's little wonder that when the inevitable chaos of family life ensues, we're lost for a strategy.
 
Why not apply the same successful methods and techniques you use at work to your home life? You can turn confusion and chaos into unity, order and sanity. 
  
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