So I am back from what might be my 11th or 12th Great Ideas conference (I've been to them all, back to the GWSAE days, but I've lost count), and as usual I had a great time. I enjoyed delivering both the deep dive on Hum ...
Sorry to break this to you, but the future of leadership is not about you. That's the title of a guest post I did this week over on the blog of Shawn Murphy and Ted Coine, two outstanding thought leaders in the leadersh ...
I just stumbled on Diego Rodriguez's blog (hat tip to Bob Sutton) called metacool. Diego is a partner at IDEO and his blog is a must read for incorporating design thinking into what you do (according to Fast Company, any ...
Next week is ASAE's Great Ideas Conference, and Maddie and I are doing a "deep dive" session on Humanize on Sunday afternoon (after the opening General Session). A "deep dive" is a three-hour session, and I'm glad ASAE h ...
So I know this is going to come as a huge shock to everyone, but Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print. Yes. They're going to stick with their online encyclopedia and a set of educational curricula (which actua ...
Lesson of the week: we are way too focused on answers. I wrote about this years ago (I think that is my only post that includes a Rilke quote; worth reading...). It's deeply ingrained, going back to grade school for mos ...
This article by Steve Denning on Forbes.com really hit me. Much of it cites Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who has an article in Vanity Fair that argues our current economic downturn isn't just a cyclical ...
Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen are two of my favorite people. They are consultants and speakers (like me), and they work around issues of diversity, HR, organization development (also like me). But that's not why I li ...
I spoke this week at Avectra's User and Developer Conference (AUDC). It was awesome conference. I can't even put my finger on it entirely, but the energy and learning and interactions all seemed...accelerated somehow. We ...
