http://tombenthin.com Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:11:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://tombenthin.com/2010/02/17/mapping-histories/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Arleen Ashjian Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:11:44 +0000 http://tombenthin.com/?p=667#comment-2 Doing a history map was critical to ultimately reaching an aligned vision and our stratgic bold steps to move forward. At first, we reacted the same way as Tom describes - "Well, OK, I suppose we can do that..." That exercise was so important to integrating the newer people with the longer term and the different functional groups and levels - it gave us a common foundation from which to work and it answered our questions, both spoken and unspoken, so we could move on with a common undertandng of where each of us had been. Doing a history map was critical to ultimately reaching an aligned vision and our stratgic bold steps to move forward. At first, we reacted the same way as Tom describes – “Well, OK, I suppose we can do that…” That exercise was so important to integrating the newer people with the longer term and the different functional groups and levels – it gave us a common foundation from which to work and it answered our questions, both spoken and unspoken, so we could move on with a common undertandng of where each of us had been.

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