Downloading Decisions
Harvard is not the only institution of higher learning in the Boston/Cambridge area, so I’m now reading MIT’s Sloan Management Review, in addition to HBR. Petere Senge is at MIT, so he’s got a great article in the Winter ...
Authentic Leadership
I can’t stress enough how GREAT the February issue of Harvard Business Review is. I’ve already got the March issue, plus several other magazines I want to read, but I have been putting them off as I continue to read supe ...
Distributed Leadership
The next good article in Harvard Business Review is called “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader,” by Deborah Ancona, Tomas Malone, Wanda Orlikowski, and Peter Senge. They point to a myth of leadership in this country: tha ...
A Good Definition of Consensus
In addition to referring me to the California Business Review article, author Michael Roberto also (understandably) referred me to his book. He has a book from 2005 titled Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: ...
Forgive (but Don't Forget)
I came across a great quote to share about forgiveness. Forgiveness/reconciliation is one of the most difficult parts of conflict resolution (in terms of “intractable” international conflicts, I think it is THE biggest i ...
Forgive (but Don’t Forget)
I came across a great quote to share about forgiveness. Forgiveness/reconciliation is one of the most difficult parts of conflict resolution (in terms of “intractable” international conflicts, I think it is THE biggest i ...
Naive Realism
Here’s some more detail from that California Management Review article about “hot” and “cool” conflict. As I said before, I love it when researchers are able to document the things I have been dealing with in my work. I ...
Success, Failure, Control, and Open Systems
I went to the Web 2.0 “mega” session at the Technology conference this week (Jeff was a panelist). It was very interesting to see how many of the association executives in the audience reacted to what the panelists were ...
Intuition, the Unconscious Mind, and Trust
This month’s HBR has the annual list of breakthrough ideas. It is always a great read. One of the ideas (number 9, to be exact) is about decision making, and it talks about intuition and unconscious thinking. The author ...
Technology v. Snow: Snow Wins
I am going to miss the second day of the ASAE & The Center Technology Conference today because of the icy road conditions (for the record, I tried to take the bus to the Metro, but my bus was actually stuck in the sn ...