Relational strategy is foremost a practice. It is a way of tending to trust, organizational culture, living into shared values, and the many dynamics that make for effective teams and execution of vision and strategy. Relational strategy can be practiced in more than one role and benefits from at least a small team (two or three) learning together.

We’ve made it a consistent practice to offer new potential ‘’clients’’ a situational assessment as part of a letter of engagement that informs a proposed scope of work. We put great effort into them. We want to share a few components that inform our practice of situational assessment, starting with our study of the Art of War with Norma Wong, towards practices of broadening awareness and generative tools.

Credit where credit is due. We’ve been obsessed with David Hinton’s book China Root, which has tagged alongside our study of the Art of War and the Tao Te Ching (more than hat tip to Norma Wong and Collective Acceleration). 

Administration of governmental, non-governmental, community, and tribal organizations and institutions happens everyday across the lands that are called the United States. In some of these places and spaces there is attention to sacred, beautiful, self-organized, and aspirational governance ways. Kuleana is a Hawaiian word that invokes the kind of responsibility and stewardship for land, people, water, and place that centers interdependence and wholeness.