Time for another one of my top five postings from the Always Done It That Way book. This one is number three on the list, and it is about avoiding that sticky discussion of who actually is “in charge.” Avoiding Clarity A ...
I want to draw your attention to a very powerful piece written by Margaret Wheatley. She is a great leadership author, and I particularly like Leadership and the New Science and Finding Our Way. She spoke at a conference ...
Shawn Lea wrote an interesting post over on the Acronym blog about the fact that managers overwhelmingly rate themselves as good managers, but their employees…not so much (92% versus 67%). One of the studies she quoted s ...
Shawn Lea wrote an interesting post over on the Acronym blog about the fact that managers overwhelmingly rate themselves as good managers, but their employees…not so much (92% versus 67%). One of the studies she quoted s ...
Check out this neat post on Signals v Noise about conflict being good for business. I like that they emphasize that you have to be careful about how you start the conflict:If you decide to stir the pot, be sure to do it ...
I'm putting up my top five posts from our We Have Always Done It That Way book. You can see number five here, and number four has to do with conflict and email. I am planning on expanding on this post, by the way, and wr ...
I thought this post on the FCNow blog was interesting, and it touched on a pet peeve of mine: what they call the "non-apology apology." In extreme, it looks like this: I apologize if anything I might have said ...
I thought this post on the FCNow blog was interesting, and it touched on a pet peeve of mine: what they call the "non-apology apology." In extreme, it looks like this: I apologize if anything I might have said ...
Great article in HBR this month about trust. Trust is a huge issue for me, and I see it all the time in organizations. It was “half” of an article I co-wrote for the Journal of Association Leadership a couple of years ag ...
Guy Kawasaki has another gem on his blog. This one is about why smart companies do dumb things. First, let me just highlight the importance of the topic. We like being smart. We spend a lot of time getting smart and prov ...
