At a conference the other day, Jeff De Cagna was making a presentation about ways in which the association community needs to think differently. He was covering topics from his ebook, Associations Unorthodox. I liked som ...
I do my fair share of serious presentations at conferences, as does my friend and colleague, Jeff De Cagna. But last week at the CalSAE annual meeting, we had the opportunity to do a five minute ignite presentation, and ...
I will be in San Francisco all of next week, which will include two different speaking events. The first will be on Tuesday, April 16th, and it's a public event being put on by the Bay Area Organization Development Ne ...
So I moved this weekend, leaving what has been the family home for more than 17 years, and downsizing to a three-bedroom apartment that is more suitable for me and my three teenagers. Like everyone, I hate the process ...
Coming up with a good strategy is hard enough, but once you do, you'll often discover that it's just the beginning. That wonderful strategic direction that you've identified has some strings attached. Like the fact that ...
I love to see other people run with the same ideas we wrote about in Humanize, and Liam Barrington-Bush is one of those people. He's working on a book, titled Anarchists in the Board Room, which applies not only the prin ...
A few weeks ago I wrote about a "window of opportunity" that organizational leaders have now. In short, "social business" (integrating social tools and principles into the way you lead and manage organizations) is not fu ...
Leaders are an interesting bunch. And by "leaders," in this case, I'm referring to the people at the top of the organizational chart. The C-suite folks. Generally speaking they're impressive people. They've done a lot to ...
I delivered the day 2 keynote address at Avectra's AUDC conference last week. It was the first time I delivered this particular keynote--I've integrated some of the more recent research on social business into the points ...
I am seeing a window of opportunity for organizations today, and for the people who lead them. There is a shift happening right now in leadership and management, away from traditional command and control, and towards a m ...
