This month’s HBR has the annual list of breakthrough ideas. It is always a great read. One of the ideas (number 9, to be exact) is about decision making, and it talks about intuition and unconscious thinking. The author ...
I am going to miss the second day of the ASAE & The Center Technology Conference today because of the icy road conditions (for the record, I tried to take the bus to the Metro, but my bus was actually stuck in the sn ...
As a follow up to yesterday’s post about bad bosses, I want to focus on the employee side a little. I had lunch on Friday with a CEO who just took a new job and is frustrated with several of the staff people she inherite ...
We Have Always Done It That Way, the book I wrote with Jeff, David, Mickie, and Amy, was featured as the cover story in Association Meetings magazine this month. Many thanks to fellow blogger Sue Pelletier for writing th ...
Associations Now this month has a little piece up front about the “bad boss” (although they announce that next month they will do one on “evil employee”). It’s drawn from Buckingham and Coffman’s First Break All the Rule ...
Okay, I’m going to jump on the bandwagon and point to a very entertaining video that is being billed as a primer for “web 2.0” (Interesting that there is a primer for a topic that others have already declared a passé buz ...
If you haven’t figured this out by now (either through knowing me or just by reading my blog), I would describe myself as “intuitive.” I have nothing against “hard” data, and I’ve been known to do some data analysis from ...
More of my notes from Great Ideas 07: Dan Heath: If you want it to stick, then SAY SOMETHING. It takes courage to say something so clearly that it can be refuted or even proven wrong. Identity is more powerful than narr ...
I had a super time at the Great Ideas conference, although the notes in my learning journal are a little sparse this year. That is partially because I did have to skip a session or two in order to continue re-creating my ...
I returned yesterday from ASAE & The Center’s Great Ideas Conference. I love this conference, and I am probably one of the few that has been to every single one of them, dating back to the GWSAE events in DC. As most ...
