Give it Away
Pfeffer's column in Business 2.0 talks about the cost of turnover. The cost of recruiting, training, and adjusting to new employees is huge. So if you invest in keeping what you have, you can save money in the long run. ...
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Perfect Group Size
Check out this brief post on the Signals v Noise blog. It cites the work of Edward Hall, who claims that the "perfect" group size is about 8-12. If you need more people than that, then your task is too complex ...
Synthesis
I know I just posted about it, but I’m very impressed with the quality of what’s going up on the new blog from ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership (called Acronym). Guest blogger Ben Martin even referenced m ...
What does ACRONYM Stand for?
Congratulations to ASAE & The Center for launching their own blog, under the title "Acronym." It's great to have another blog voice in the association community (hey, does this mean we have graduated and mo ...
Power of Trust
I found this interesting post on the signal v noise blog about trust. They had to choose a designer for a project they were working on, and it turns out the deciding factor among three talented designers was trust. Not p ...
Ignoring the Truth
I'm really enjoying Don Moyer's piece on the last page of HBR each month. This month it is about "fitting facts" to fit your view of the world and what works. He paraphrases an idea from Sydney Finkelstein's bo ...
Overachievers
Ben Martin at the CAE Blog recently put out an idea and invited those of us writing the "We've Always Done It That Way" blog to expand upon it. I took the challenge and wrote a post about the tendency in associ ...
Conflict, Trust, and Teams
In the Forethought section of this month’s Harvard Business Review, there’s a nice piece about conflict in teams. Its basic message seems identical, actually, to the message in Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a T ...
Conflict Costs Billions
Thanks to Hallely Azulay of Talentgrow for pointing me to this article about the cost of conflict in organizations. An alternative dispute resolution company in Europe did some research to try to quantify how much confli ...