Respectfully Contentious
In Washington Smart CEO this month there is a brief article that gives an example of a company that is implementing a bit of what I was talking about in my Great Ideas presentation at Marco Island in January. There I was ...
Giving and Receiving Feedback
I’ve got a client right now that has experienced an extremely deep conflict. The conflict started in earnest nearly a year ago, but I’m just now getting called in. In talking to one of the participants, he lamented that ...
Leadership Lessons from the Dog Whisperer
Those who know me recognize that I don’t particularly watch TV. But I do flip through the stations occasionally, and the other day I came across the “Dog Whisperer” show on the National Geographic Channel. This chronicle ...
Get A Free Copy of the E-Book
Thanks to my friend and "partner in crime" (his words) Jeff De Cagna for doing a little promotion on my new e-book. He is actually giving six copies away to association executives via his Principled Innovation ...
Leadership versus Authority
In an earlier post I referenced Peter Senge’s definition of leadership (in short, a capacity to shape the future). The capacity is fundamentally a group one, although obviously individuals would need to develop capacitie ...
Generational Diversity in the Workplace
I’m back from vacation in Japan. And although I did have internet access while I was there, it really was a vacation—no work, no blog posting, no reading Harvard Business Review. I didn’t even work during my 26 hours of ...
Lost in Translation?
I will be in Japan this week, visiting my brother who is a permanent resident there (he is a university professor at Keio University in Yokohama). So don't expect too many blog posts. Although depending on my internet ac ...
Mindset
Guy Kawasaki points to an article by Stanford psychology professor, Carol Dweck about the role of “mindset” in success (in both business and family). Dweck seems to have a lot about raising children, but Kawasaki applied ...
Definition of Leadership
Newton Holt writes a great article about Howard Gardner’s “Five Minds” research (Five Minds for the Future) in Associations Now. It reminded me a bit of the Ancona et al. article in Harvard Business Review that talked ab ...
Five Things
There is a portion of my digital life that was lost with my hard drive crash in late January. It was a small portion, but each day I discover things that have fallen through the cracks or been looked over as I dealt with ...