Wow! Eleven comments! My last post on clear writing seems to have struck a nerve. I will write more on it (well, I hope!), but first I wanted to share something that an actual member of the millennial generation said abo ...
I gave a presentation to an association Board on Friday about generational differences. During the discussion, one of the Board members (who had described himself as one of the oldest in the room) made a point that he wa ...
The “Eight Things” meme is going around the blogosphere (more specifically the blogoclump), where bloggers shed a little light on their personalities or personal life. Ben Martin has tagged me in this go-round. I was tag ...
I quite by accident stumbled across some notes I took when I read Seth Godin's 2002 book Survival Is Not Enough today. This quote seems worth repeating:The difference between a penguin and your company is simple: while y ...
I have an article in the most recent Journal of Association Leadership on the topic of generational diversity. It's online here (not sure if you have to be a member to access it). It covers some (but not all!) of the mat ...
Superstar blogger Maddie Grant has posted an interesting introduction to what I hope will be an even more interesting online conversation about leadership. Maddie was not only named association blogger Rookie of the Year ...
Thanks to everyone who has sent me thoughts, prayers, and wonderfully kind words of sympathy and condolences after my father's death in December. My post about his death certainly sets a record for this blog in terms of ...
Okay, I have done two posts about Covey's Speed of Trust book (here and here). Covey has five "waves" of trust. The first is self trust and focuses on what YOU need to do to be trustworthy and trust others. Th ...
Happy 2008 to everyone. It's leap year, so we have 366 days to work with this year. This one's down (and it was a day off). You've got 365 left. Please make every day count. You owe it both to yourself and all of us. I p ...
