Relationships Matter
I love Margaret Wheatley’s writing, and she has a great article in Associations Now this month. Really, you should read the whole thing. Herre’s my favorite quote:Many of our frequent and recurring failures in organizati ...
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Here but Not There
The Fast Company blog has weighed in on the recent trend of violence in professional basketball. The Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks are the latest to get attention for players beating each other up on national te ...
What is Participation?
I just used a quote in response to David Gammel’s comment to my last post, but as I look at it, I think it is good enough to get its own post. It is from Ed Schein, who is a great scholar and practitioner in the organiza ...
But I am NOT a micromanager!
Here are some words of “wisdom” from an article in Forum magazine:CEOs should delegate and should avoid micromanaging. But they should never fail to supervise. The buck stops with the CEO. They ultimately are responsible ...
It Makes Sense to Me
I found this great quote in a post on Patty Digh's blog:In times of panic, or fear, we create whole worlds of sense in our minds.Her point was that these worlds only actually make sense in your mind. Not to other people, ...
Staff Meeting or Strategic Conversation?
Next month I will be speaking at ASAE & The Center’s annual “Great Ideas Conference.” This time I am doing a session about staff meetings. The title of the session is “Turning Staff Meetings into Strategic Conversati ...
Getting Unstuck
There is an article in a journal called OD Practitioner (which is the journal of the Organization Development Network, a professional association to which I belong) about conflict resolution, written by Ken Cloke and Joa ...
Applying "Always Done It That Way"
Many thanks to Sue Pelletier for talking about our We Have Always Done It That Way book on her blog. She is specifically asking for people who have read the book and are applying the lessons to contact her. Let me second ...
Applying “Always Done It That Way”
Many thanks to Sue Pelletier for talking about our We Have Always Done It That Way book on her blog. She is specifically asking for people who have read the book and are applying the lessons to contact her. Let me second ...
New Year, New Trends
Yes, it's time to start looking ahead to 2007. In that light, I want to direct your attention to a web seminar that my friend Jeff De Cagna is putting on in early January. He is doing a series of web seminars in 07, and ...