The Next Level
A mentor asked me an important question the other day. She said, “What does the next level look like for you?” The question caught me off guard, because we were discussing a very specific issue at the time. But the quest ...
Squidoo Lenses
Seth Godin’s blog has become one of my favorites lately, and in getting back in touch with all things Godin, I have also taken another look at Squidoo. Godin created Squidoo, and it is a very large collection of “lenses” ...
Perception versus Reality
Here is some more from that Sloan article that talks about good conflict and bad conflict. Although I don’t think their distinction between “task” and “relationship” conflict was clear enough, that wasn’t the main point ...
Good Conflict and Bad Conflict
I am seeing more and more about conflict in the mainstream business press, which is a good thing. Specifically, a popular dichotomy is emerging: there is good conflict and bad conflict. The “good” conflict is typically v ...
Good Review of Generational Diversity in the Workplace
Ben Martin (of the Certified Association Executive Blog) wrote a FANTASTIC review of my e-book on Generational Diversity. So if you want the one-page version of what I wrote about, take a look at his blog. I think he sum ...
Changing Culture
There is a nice piece about the strength of organizational culture in the Sloan Management Review. Researchers looked at “spinoff” companies to see if they could measure corporate culture and whether the spinoff companie ...
How do you REALLY Empower Leaders?
Scott Briscoe has an interview with Bill George in Associations Now regarding a new leadership book he has out titled True North. His comments resonate with the notion of “distributed leadership” that I wrote about earli ...
Trust and Guarantees
I’ve been working with a group where the level of trust is very low. During a session with this group, the leader of the group asked everyone else if they were willing to work with him. One person responded with, in effe ...
Forced Collaboration
Larry Bossidy has the cover story in HBR this month about what leaders expect of you and what you should expect of leaders. Bossidy wrote the book, Execution, with Ram Charan. He is a former exec, and his style is very s ...
The (Negative) Power of Context
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradi ...