Shaking Up Patterns
This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown's Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. I went through this program 11 years ago myself (though it didn't have ...
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Humanize and the Millennial Generation
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about an inherent paradox in the conversation about generational differences. The differences we see among generations are both true at the big picture level AND irrelevant at the individual ...
Conflict and Decision Making
There is an article in the Volunteer Leadership issue of Associations Now titled, "Balanced Conflict, Better Decisions." The conclusions in the article concern me. I'm paraphrasing here, but the article says: "Cog ...
Generations and Paradox
During a Twitter chat last week, I had some back and forth with a couple of people on the topic of generational differences. The conversation was focused on the Humanize book, and the initial question was whether the Mi ...
Book Review: The Knowing-Doing Gap
As authors Pfeffer and Sutton point out, there are nearly 2,000 books published each year, just in the “Business” category. There is no shortage of knowledge out there at our fingertips: knowledge about the best manageme ...
Changing the World in 2012
Maddie tagged me in a "how are you going to change the world in 2012" meme in a blog post last week. She was inspired by this post by Craig Newmark, and now she's asked a whole host of us to talk about what we're going t ...