Culture is Social
I just posted on the Association Renewal Blog about Ram Charan's article in HBR about a big culture change at Home Depot. The AR post is more about the "change" part (what got you there won't get you where you' ...
I just posted on the Association Renewal Blog about Ram Charan's article in HBR about a big culture change at Home Depot. The AR post is more about the "change" part (what got you there won't get you where you' ...
There are more good business books out there than I have time to read. As I hear about them, I usually put them on that mental "I really should read that" list. Some of those make it to my house, but fewer of t ...
Here’s a tidbit from the Winter 06 issue of the Journal of Association Leadership. There’s an article on “Living Strategy,” an interesting alternative to strategic planning that the American Society for Quality has used. ...
I promised a long time ago that I would post some more on the book that a colleague of mine wrote called “Extreme Facilitation.” The author, Suzanne Ghais, did the same graduate program in conflict resolution that I did ...
There's a nice piece (subscription required) in the "intelligence" section of the March Associations Now by Dale Gaddy of the American Chemical Society about how they avoid "silos" in their organizati ...
I mentioned before that I love blogs (both reading and writing) because they can so easily and so quickly connect you to things all over the world. For example, in the last few days my blog has been getting lots of visit ...
I met with a group of fellow consultants this morning and out of our conversation came an interesting idea:Leaders have more power to keep things from happening than they do to make things happen.I think that is worthy o ...
The new Associations Now magazine has an interesting story about leadership. It covers some research being done by the Center for Creative Leadership (top of the line leadership training outfit in North Carolina). Their ...
Just got back from the Great Ideas conference in San Diego. It was great fun, as always. Handing out copies of our "We've Always Done it That Way" prototype was fun, and I was pleased with the reaction we were ...