Scott Briscoe in Associations Now interviewed Deborah Ancona, an MIT Management professor, who has a new book out about teams. I had heard of Ancona only in an article in HBR about distributed leadership, but I really li ...
On some of the listserves I follow, Friday is considered a day when it is okay to post things that are funny or frivolous. So why not make it the day to post things that are deep, too? Sometimes it feels like it’s all we ...
Lisa Junker (ASAE & The Center staff and Acronym blogger) commented on my last post about the “inner work life” article in HBR, pointing to another specific point in the article:I was especially interested in Amabile ...
Association Forum has an article this month in the "Trend Watch" column that talks about future implications for associations. According to the author, two big trends will impact everything: generational transi ...
As promised, here is some more about psychology and business from the Harvard Business Review article by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer about “inner work life.” The article follows in the footsteps of Goleman and his e ...
Thanks to Chris Bailey for linking to my recent post quoting the poet David Whyte. I included that quote because the word “conversation” had leapt out at me. Interestingly, it was the word “belong” that jumped out for Ch ...
An interesting little conversation has developed in the blogoclump about the Millennial generation. It started when Lisa Junker posted a letter from Brynn Grumstrup Slate, a millennial reader of Associations Now, who was ...
David Gammel posted a wise (and laugh-out-loud) comment on one of BMart's recent posts. Ben wrote up a great primer for new bloggers to the 'clump on how to be, well, actually PART of the 'clump. Bottom line: read what o ...
Sometimes I lament to clients that I have to fight against the reputation of being “touchy-feely” in my work. Once classified as touchy-feely, I can lose the respect of many in the business world. And, for the record, I’ ...
There is a one-page interview with poet David Whyte in HBR in May. Whyte uses poetry to address leadership and business issues in corporation. He said he was initially invited to do corporate work after giving a talk abo ...
