I woke up this morning feeling a little guilty about not posting to the blog yesterday, despite having read some great stuff in the new Associations Now, but then I discovered that Ben Martin has bestowed the “best assoc ...
I woke up this morning feeling a little guilty about not posting to the blog yesterday, despite having read some great stuff in the new Associations Now, but then I discovered that Ben Martin has bestowed the “best assoc ...
Well, it is back to the real world after a very restful vacation. Not only did I forego blogging entirely during the break, I even went four days without any internet connectivity. That was nice, until I came back to the ...
I love Margaret Wheatley’s writing, and she has a great article in Associations Now this month. Really, you should read the whole thing. Herre’s my favorite quote:Many of our frequent and recurring failures in organizati ...
The Fast Company blog has weighed in on the recent trend of violence in professional basketball. The Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks are the latest to get attention for players beating each other up on national te ...
I just used a quote in response to David Gammel’s comment to my last post, but as I look at it, I think it is good enough to get its own post. It is from Ed Schein, who is a great scholar and practitioner in the organiza ...
Here are some words of “wisdom” from an article in Forum magazine:CEOs should delegate and should avoid micromanaging. But they should never fail to supervise. The buck stops with the CEO. They ultimately are responsible ...
I found this great quote in a post on Patty Digh's blog:In times of panic, or fear, we create whole worlds of sense in our minds.Her point was that these worlds only actually make sense in your mind. Not to other people, ...
Next month I will be speaking at ASAE & The Center’s annual “Great Ideas Conference.” This time I am doing a session about staff meetings. The title of the session is “Turning Staff Meetings into Strategic Conversati ...
There is an article in a journal called OD Practitioner (which is the journal of the Organization Development Network, a professional association to which I belong) about conflict resolution, written by Ken Cloke and Joa ...
