How the iPad Changed My Life
Okay, the title is overly dramatic, but I am impressed with how the way I so comfortably use this machine has actually changed my habits a bit. I bought the iPad mostly for reading. I didn't buy a keyb ...
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Reflections on #ASAE10: Passion Matters
The opening round of ASAE recap blog posts have been a bit of a downer. This does not surprise me given the conversations I was having with friends of colleagues towards the end. For one reason or another, the meeting ju ...
Fear Sucks
Permit me to sound like a keynote speaker for a minute... If there's ONE THING you remember from this blog post it's this: (dramatic pause...) the reason your organization sucks, is fear. I write about a lot of t ...
Strategy is Personal
I did some strategy work for an association client last week, and to start off the session, I asked the board members in their introductions to share what volunteering really meant to them. Why did it matter? Why was it ...
Pushing the Edge of the Envelope at #ASAE10
My first ASAE annual meeting was Minneapolis in 2004. I registered so late I was out of the room block. I only knew a handful of people in the community, most of whom I met through GWSAE. I had a good time, but it was la ...
Managing Generations Slides
Thanks to everyone at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida for coming out to my "Managing Generations in the Workplace" session. As a reminder, the ebook on generations can be downloaded for free, and the slides a ...
Creating Tomorrow's Organizations
That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of ...
Creating Tomorrow’s Organizations
That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of ...
Capacity for Solving Problems
My speaking schedule brought me through Omaha, Nebraska yesterday, which afforded me the great luxury of some face time with Joe Gerstandt. We had no agenda, but spent the morning quite productively talking abou ...
Why Diversity Issues Are Hard
Last week Elizabeth Engel put up a very short post about a new TED conference focused on women, expressing her displeasure with "ghettoizing" women by creating a separate conference. The post then became one of ...