Love and Power
So here's something fairly deep to think about. Nilofer Merchant wrote an interesting blog post last week that told a story about when she was at a rather high-powered networking event a few years ago and was "between o ...
Monthly Archives: August 2011
A Good Conversation About Inclusion
Last week Jeffrey Cufaude wrote a post about a struggle he was having--a struggle with being one of four totally awesome people selected for a conference panel who all happened to be white. He struggled because it seems ...
Book Review: The Corporate Culture Survival Guide
The Corporate Culture Survival Guide: Sense and Nonsense About Culture Change by Edgar Schein Jossey-Bass, 1999 Clients often come to me knowing that something needs to change in order to achieve better performance, but ...
It's Hard to See Culture
Maddie and I had a great conversation last night with Craig Honick, of Sector Intelligence, about the topic of culture. As a researcher, Craig has expertise on identifying and telling the story of culture in organization ...
Humanize on Facebook
Maddie and I have created a page for our new book on Facebook. Please stop by and "like" the page. We recognize that tons of people get a lot of their information these days from their Facebook streams, so we're hoping t ...
What Is Generative?
Last week Maddie and I had our first public conversation about the Humanize book at the ASAE Annual Meeting in St. Louis. We did an unofficial session in their "flash learning lounge" with about 15 people during the last ...
You Are Not the Center of the Universe
I already did an overall recap post on the ASAE Annual Meeting over on the Common Thread blog with some big picture reactions to the event. Here I wanted to dig into some of the issues a little more deeply, and there's o ...
Preview of #ASAE11
Okay, the countdown timer has started for #ASAE11 in St. Louis. My mind is now getting focused on preparations, packing, dry cleaning, and scheduling. It's always so much to fit into such a short amount of time. There ar ...