Associations Now has a good article on Brainstorming. The term is very well-known now, but I find in organizations we rarely do it the way it was intended. As the article states, the purpose of brainstorming is to genera ...
The FCNow blog pointed me to a resource on the Fast Company site that is about action learning. According to a survey of Chief Learning Officers in corporations, the three learning methods they are stressing right now (i ...
Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives for inviting me to do a keynote speech at their annual meeting on Wedensday. I did the morning general session on “Overcoming Your Association’s Fear of Conflic ...
Almost to number 1! This is definitely one of my favorites, and it ties into much of the work that Jeff and I do over at Association Renewal in our "Building Strategic Capacity" projects. I actually first put t ...
Thanks to Nick Senzee for posting a review of We Have Always Done It That Way over on "Nick's Book Blog." Check it out. ...
There are two pieces to this post, and the first is a call to action (the second will be the background that explains it in more detail). So here’s the action part. My friend Jeff De Cagna currently as a “manifesto” prop ...
Here’s another quote from Margaret Wheatley’s piece on fearlessness:And the second question that just occurred to me as I was doing this is, Are we choosing names that demand fearlessness? You're a coach. You're an execu ...
Here’s another quote from Margaret Wheatley’s piece on fearlessness:And the second question that just occurred to me as I was doing this is, Are we choosing names that demand fearlessness? You're a coach. You're an execu ...
The FCNow blog pointed me to a very interesting article they have (available to everyone) on their website. It’s by Margaret Heffernan and it is partially about women and diversity in the workplace, but it goes beyond th ...
One person cannot ruin a good company. It takes a strong management team to do that. Stepan Pachikov, who sold a successful virtual reality company to Silicon Graphics who, apparently, then ran it into the ground.A ...
