2013 Year End
Yes, it's the annual year in review post! This has been a year of big change. In March I left my job of the last five years and went back out on my own, and this summer I sold my house of the last 17 years and have been ...
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Top 8 Blog Posts of 2013
Below are the top 8 blog posts of this year, as ranked by page views. It's hard to do a straight, objective ranking here, since looking at page views on an annual basis gives an edge to the older posts, so I looked at th ...
Thoughts on Strategy and Culture
In case you haven't seen it, here's a quick interview I did with JP Moery for his show, Association Labs, where we talk about both strategy and culture for associations. ...
Why Do Car Dealers Exist?
Note: It's Christmas week, so I assume things are a going to be slow, so I thought I would throw in a relatively non-traditional post from me. I hope you enjoy it. Imagine you wanted to buy a new car shipping companies, ...
Book Review: Fierce Loyalty
Fierce Loyalty: Unlocking the DNA of Wildly Successful Communities by Sarah Robinson Hayfield Publishing, 2012 I'm halfway through several good business books right now, but I was able to squeeze in a small but ...
Excerpt from Culture Ebook
In case you didn't see it, SmartBrief has reprinted an excerpt from my new ebook, Culture That Works, over on their SmartBlog on Leadership. It's from Chapter 2, and it includes my definition of culture. My favorite quot ...
The Power of Amateurs
Yesterday I commented on the number one frustration I hear from the non-users of social media (that it's all about what people had for lunch). Today we'll tackle another popular attack from a few years ago: that social m ...
What You Had for Lunch DOES Matter
Remember the early days of Twitter, when nobody understood it? I was a fairly early adopter, and I remember that the number-one complaint I would hear from people who didn't understand Twitter was that they really didn't ...
Including Outsiders
I just spent a few days in Key West, Florida on vacation. I can't say enough good things about Key West; it's a fabulous place to vacation. But you know me, even on vacation I end up thinking about organizational issues! ...
Generational Research Does Not Provide Answers (Friday Quote)
I haven't done a Friday Quote in a while, and today I'm drawing from an ebook that I wrote (gasp) six years ago, on Generational Diversity. I've been thinking a lot about generations lately. I'm wondering if it's time to ...