Productivity
Maybe I just really needed a vacation, but as it was winding down, and I started thinking about works, blogs, etc., I was compelled to write a bit about PRODUCTIVITY. Specifically, I want to be a bit negative about produ ...
Young Wisdom
In reaction to my proud promise that I would do NO WORK at all for one week during our family vacation next week, my eight-year-old replied: "Dad, grownups really need summer vacations." Amen. ...
Orbiting Hairballs
For my birthday last month, I got a great book by Gordon MacKenzie, called “Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace.” MacKenzie worked at Hallmark cards (when you care enough to send ...
Admitting Mistakes
Admitting Mistakes I spoke to a senior executive this week who said he had been dragged over the coals during a performance review, simply because he had initiated an open and honest discussion with his superiors about w ...
Association Renewal Blog
I just wanted to let everyone know that this is not my only blog. Much of my consulting work is in the association community, and my friend and colleague Jeff De Cagna and I have actually started a separate company for w ...
Seeing It…Before It's Too Late
One of my clients told me today that she now sees when things are going badly, and knows when to ask for help. What a gift for a leader! Seeing that there is a problem and unilaterally changing perspective or behavior is ...
Seeing It…Before It’s Too Late
One of my clients told me today that she now sees when things are going badly, and knows when to ask for help. What a gift for a leader! Seeing that there is a problem and unilaterally changing perspective or behavior is ...
Is it Lonely at the Top?
In two separate client situations in the last week, leaders (one Board one staff) told me they were experiencing the age-old adage of it being “lonely at the top.” To some extent, I think it can be lonely at the top of a ...
Thinking and Acting
The May 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review has a great article titled “Your Company’s Secret Change Agents,” by Richard Tanner Pascale and Jerry Sternin. It points out that all organizations have small pockets of peop ...
Why Generations Matter (and Why They Don't)
I am speaking on Monday, May 23rd at ASAE’s Financial Management Symposium. I’m the lunchtime keynote speaker, and my presentation is titled “Why Generations Matter, and Why They Don’t: the Business Realities of Diversit ...