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Walt Hopkins is the founder of Castle Consultants International, a core faculty member of Management Centre Europe, and a senior consultant with NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science.

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Make Your Mark!: Influencing Across Your Organization

This indispensable guide covers the political strategies any businessperson can use to make things happen in an inflexible organization. The author reveals how to build coalitions, get support for ideas from people who count, choose the right strategy, overcome resistance, and much more.
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The future is not a result of choices among
alternative paths offered by the present, but a
place that is created—created first in the mind
and will, created next in activity. The future is
not some place we are going to, but one we
are creating. The paths are not to be found,
but made, and the activity of making them,
changes both the maker and the destination.

John Schaar

Source: Unknown; please let me know if you know the source.
Comment: This is a great description of Appreciative Inquiry.

Haiku in honour of 50 years of keeping a journal

January 2008

Fifty years ago
today I wrote forty-eight
words—and kept writing

Listening to Albinoni

February 2008

Adagio is
a good tempo to live more
of my work and life

Watching TV with WFP staff in Darfur

March 2008

Candidates fight far
away while we focus here
on feeding people

In honour of Arthur C. Clarke

March 2008

"Overhead, without any
fuss, the stars were going out"
Clarke is in orbit

Haiku for a T Group

April 2008

I look out beyond
the space I'm in to see in
to the space we're in

What is Castle? For more than twenty years I've been doing business as Castle Consultants International. That's because I like castles.

Why a Castle? I like the wonderful double image of castles: they are fantastic, dream-like, and up in the air AND they are grounded on rocks, solid as forever. That's why I see castles as a visual symbol of one of the wisest things I've ever said: A goal is a dream taken seriously.

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Harburn House is our favourite venue for intensive workshops with small groups. We get exclusive use of this wonderful old house set amid three thousands acres of woods, ponds, and fields. Mike creates incredible meals and Susie takes care of anything from an extra tea break to a trip into Edinburgh.

Thanks to Rozi Spurway, Harburn provides the background for all the wonderful photos that Ervin Šilić took for this website. Click on the photo for more information about Harburn.

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