Stop Doing List
I finally got around to reading the “regular” part of Associations Now. They put most of the good stuff, in my opinion, in the Volunteer Leadership supplement. I liked the cover story about paradoxes (my favorite quote i ...
Rare Leadership Competencies
I posted on the Association Renewal blog about an HBR article about “Act II Leadership” because it’s about making change BEFORE things have gone completely downhill, a critical capacity in strategy making that too many o ...
Change Leadership
As a follow up to last week’s post about leadership and culture, I’ll point to yet another article in this month’s HBR (this month’s issue is certainly a keeper!). It’s actually a “best of” article that was originally pu ...
Interests versus Positions
Ann Oliveri has a nice post about the resurgence of whooping cranes that also touches on one of the most important points I make when I do presentations or training in conflict resolution. She describes a “win-win” solut ...
Competency Models (Yuck!)
The case study in HBR this month is about leadership competency models. I have to say, very few things make me care less than the term “competency model.” In theory I understand they are important—they identify the skill ...
Actual Leaders on Leadership
This month’s Harvard Business Review has a section up front that is a collection of short essays by business leaders—actual CEOs and executive from high powered corporations. I am extremely impressed with the wisdom they ...
Compassion
At the end of my session Friday, the group asked if I had any final words of wisdom. I like to respond to those requests, even though I don’t have a “stock” answer prepared ahead of time. And although I didn’t make the c ...
Slow is the new Fast?
There are a couple of good posts over on the Acronym blog about making “fast” decisions versus making the “right” ones. It started with some comments Jim Collins made in an interview with Scott Briscoe. I had written abo ...
Crazy Busy
Edward Hallowell has an article in Associations Now's "Volunteer Leadership" supplement this month. It talks about finding balance and managing time so you don't get "crazy busy" (Hallowell wrote a bo ...
Science and Fiction of Meetings
Jeff De Cagna sent me an article from the Sloan Management Review about “the science and fiction of meetings” (thanks, Jeff). Here are some data tidbids: The amount of times we spend in meetings doubled between the 1960s ...