What do you see as the qualities of good leaders? Integrity and honesty - never compromise these. They have a passion...

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | January 30, 2018 | Formation, Social Media, Technology: Issues and Uses | 0 Comments
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | September 14, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation | 0 Comments
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | August 17, 2017 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses | 0 Comments
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | August 12, 2017 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses | 0 Comments
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 14, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation
What do you see as the qualities of good leaders? Integrity and honesty - never compromise these. They have a passion...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Aug 17, 2017 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Two strategies. One goal. Community Organizing. Collective Impact. Older folks will remember community organizing....
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Aug 12, 2017 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Leadership Learning Community is a resource with which Vincentians should be familar. Here's a great piece by...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 28, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning around the 400th anniversary, we can forget that to say #IamVincent means to do the work. Here's the third of a three-part "reworking" of a timely article...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 25, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning around the 400th anniversary, we can forget that to say #IamVincent means to do the work. Here's the second of a three-part "reworking" of...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 25, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning around the 400th anniversary, we can forget that to say #IamVincent means to do the work. Here's the first of a three-part "reworking" of a timely article...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 29, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation
Many have said that being Catholic means to adopt a position of "both/and": grace and nature, present and future, corporal and spiritual. It shouldn't be news to Vincentians. Often, the organizational demands placed upon leaders -- and that includes Vincentian leaders...
by Famvin Media Resources | Jun 20, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation
We share with you the Keynote Address of our Vincentian brother, John Darley, at the international Vincentian Family meeting in Rome, Italy (January 22 – 24, 2016). This presentation emphasizes the old N'gambai African proverb: "If you want to travel fast, you travel...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jun 16, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
To say #IamVincent means we recognize the need to evaluate to improve our evangelization, service and formation of leaders. Vincent knew that we must always seek God's will, and evaluate: do we stay or do we go? Let’s give ourselves to God, Messieurs, to go throughout...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 13, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Reflections
If you want to say "IamVincent," you have to be collaborative. There's no other way. In an article on leadership at the Training Industry blog, we read, The word “collaboration” is thrown around a lot these days. What do organizations mean when they tell their leaders...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 5, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Reflections
When is someone ready to lead? In 2010, Bill George of the Harvard Business School said this: In retrospect, it seems obvious people weren't responding to "top down" leadership. Why not? The craftsman-apprentice model has been replaced...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 3, 2016 | Collaboration, Social, Social Media
Five years ago, Forbes magazine published an article entitled, "From Social Networks to Collaboration Networks: The Next Evolution of Social Media for Business." To re-purpose a key phrase of this article (underlined sections are my variations), the biggest value that...