Our book has arrived! I am very excited to see the finished product of something that four very dear people and I have been working on for nearly a year. We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We ...
One more note about the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting: I’m putting up my very first prize for the Silent Auction, on behalf of Notter Consulting. I’m offering a half-day training for staff or volunteers in conflic ...
Okay, I’ve started reading the Gerzon book on conflict. I’ve hardly read anything yet, so I don’t particularly have a real update on what the book says compared to the Associations Now article. However, in response to Di ...
Sorry for this relatively substanceless post, but I need to test out the new software that I downloaded for my new Treo smartphone. It allows me to make posts (like this one) from my phone instead of my computer. This ma ...
I’ve been working very hard this week on my presentation that I will deliver at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting next Saturday, in Boston. The title of the session is “Overcoming your Association’s Fear of Confli ...
Associations Now has an article by Mark Gerzon about “bridging leadership.” Gerzon comes from the conflict resolution field, and has a new book titled Leading Through Conflict (I just ordered it, so expect some more from ...
Sorry for the brief hiatus, but the family and I were on vacation last week (and now I am having trouble adjusting to the real world!). And despite all the good business-related books I want to (or should) read, I chose ...
HBR’s summer issue is about sales—not really the focus of my work. But there was a good one about stopping the “war” between the sales and marketing departments. I like this one, because even if your organization doesn’t ...
My apologies to regular readers of the Association Renewal Blog (since I just announced this over there), but I want everyone to know that we have finished writing the "Always Done It That Way" book. If you rem ...
A reminder to everyone that I am speaking at the upcoming ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership Annual Meeting in Boston. I can't believe that it's just over a month away. My session is titled "Overcoming ...
