It takes patience to gather around a table of colleagues and throw a bunch of ideas at a wall to see what sticks. But at the Maryland Association of CPAs' recent Leadership Academy in Timonium, Md., under the facilitation of MACPA and Business Learning Institute CEO Tom Hood and MACPA strategic business partner and BLI instructor Gretchen Pisano, it also took literal stickiness, in the form of large Post-It notes. Hood's popular "management by sticky notes" technique was still dependent on the aforementioned skills, as we participants worked in teams to conceptualize, write, and then share our ideas before affixing them to walls to watch patterns and directives emerge as they joined with those of the other teams.
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