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Nancy Dorrier talks about Strategy as a Verb from Dorrier Underwood on Vimeo .

I have taken the garbage and recycles to the road for the Monday pickup, lots from a weekend full of visitors here for William's walk for curing Mitochondrial disease at Freedom Park followed by submarine sandwich picnic named submarines I guess because that is what the sandichese look like, one long baguette filled with meats, cheese and tapande and olive oil. Sometimes I feel a kind of deep sadness And today I have it Not always provoked But yet and still There is the deep love I have for my grandchildren I have been with for the last 2 days William, 4, of course jerking looking around smiling laughing pausing listening eternally floppy and our surprise child never knowing how much we take healthy strong children for granted and never knowing how we can deal with this again and again. When we first heard of mitochondrial disease we looked on the intranet and the first sentence was “a form of dementia,” I don’t look on the intranet anymore. Deep love Deep love...

One of Dorrier Underwood’s tools for building relationships is to use creative writing as a path to discovery and authentic communication. We’ve long used the practice internally, and are happy to expand it to include blogging, as a way for us to share our exploration – and process of exploration - with you.  Nancy Dorrier, thought leader, co-founder, and president of Dorrier Underwood, starts us off with a reflection on creative alignment. What is it?  I listen to ourselves. Our intern used to say we interrupt a lot. She isn’t saying or not saying, Wow you guys listen a lot . She isn’t even being critical. “I am just saying.” Then I listen to a friend and his wife talk on top of each other and I don’t know which one to respond to. Trucking along in the conversation and here comes another voice. What is the value of 2 brains or 3 brains? Someone is thinking beyond, or at least other than the way I think, and the way you think. You and I can only think what we ...