Employee Education
As a follow up to yesterday’s post about bad bosses, I want to focus on the employee side a little. I had lunch on Friday with a CEO who just took a new job and is frustrated with several of the staff people she inherite ...
Book Featured in Association Meetings
We Have Always Done It That Way, the book I wrote with Jeff, David, Mickie, and Amy, was featured as the cover story in Association Meetings magazine this month. Many thanks to fellow blogger Sue Pelletier for writing th ...
Relationships at Work
Associations Now this month has a little piece up front about the “bad boss” (although they announce that next month they will do one on “evil employee”). It’s drawn from Buckingham and Coffman’s First Break All the Rule ...
Web 2.0 Primer
Okay, I’m going to jump on the bandwagon and point to a very entertaining video that is being billed as a primer for “web 2.0” (Interesting that there is a primer for a topic that others have already declared a passé buz ...
Hot and Cool Conflict
If you haven’t figured this out by now (either through knowing me or just by reading my blog), I would describe myself as “intuitive.” I have nothing against “hard” data, and I’ve been known to do some data analysis from ...
Great Ideas Notebook
More of my notes from Great Ideas 07: Dan Heath: If you want it to stick, then SAY SOMETHING. It takes courage to say something so clearly that it can be refuted or even proven wrong. Identity is more powerful than narr ...
Ideas that Stick Can Also Stress
I had a super time at the Great Ideas conference, although the notes in my learning journal are a little sparse this year. That is partially because I did have to skip a session or two in order to continue re-creating my ...
Great Ideas, Excellent Adventure?
I returned yesterday from ASAE & The Center’s Great Ideas Conference. I love this conference, and I am probably one of the few that has been to every single one of them, dating back to the GWSAE events in DC. As most ...
Back up your hard drive
I am blogging from my mobile phone at the great ideas conference in Florida. Am I "moblogging" because I am on the beach or at some web 2.0 session? No. I can't blog from my laptop because the hard drive died on Friday. ...
Indexed
I absolutely love a blog that Mickie Rops pointed to, called “Indexed.” The posts are simply sketches on the back of 3x5 index cards. They convey interesting points in the form of graphs and diagrams (without, as the blo ...