Leadership and Change
Thanks to Kristin Clarke on Acronym for pointing to a good ChangeThis manifesto: People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You Are Trying to Change Them. This is a free download, by the way (if you don't know about ChangeT ...
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Conflict Is Inevitable and Good
As I mentioned in the last post, Jim Stroup did a series of posts last week about conflict and leadership. It was based on his review of the work of Mary Parker Follett. I love to see the topic covered, of course, and I ...
How Important Is Being Right?
Patti Digh said this today on Twitter: "What would happen if we could give up our attachment to being right?" A powerful question, I think. And it reminded me that I had wanted to post about this topic. Before ...
Vacation Post
I am on vacation at the beach in South Carolina. I haven't even been able to look at my work email. It's been great! So I don't have much substance in me for this post, so instead I'll just send you over to Lisa Junker's ...
Language Can be Tricky
I stumbled across a few things this week that illuminate the importance of language. The first was a funny website put up by Kivi Leroux Miller on "Nonprofit Buzzword Bingo." Buzzword Bingo has been around for a while ...
Announcements
There's a lot going on, so let me run some of it down for you. 1. The ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting in San Diego is rapidly approaching. I'm not doing any sessions on conflict this year, but I am co-facilitating t ...
It's Okay for Organizations To Die
Blogger Matt Baehr has been posting some interesting comments on Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everybody, particularly on the notion of self-forming groups as threats to associations. B-Mart has chimed in as well. When ...
It’s Okay for Organizations To Die
Blogger Matt Baehr has been posting some interesting comments on Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everybody, particularly on the notion of self-forming groups as threats to associations. B-Mart has chimed in as well. When ...
Focus on Others (You'll Get More for You)
Thanks to generations guy Andrew Krzmarzick for pointing to a nice article in Tech News World about using social networks (like Facebook) in a business context. It's a nice article to have on hand to those of you out the ...
Focus on Others (You’ll Get More for You)
Thanks to generations guy Andrew Krzmarzick for pointing to a nice article in Tech News World about using social networks (like Facebook) in a business context. It's a nice article to have on hand to those of you out the ...