That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of ...
That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of ...
My speaking schedule brought me through Omaha, Nebraska yesterday, which afforded me the great luxury of some face time with Joe Gerstandt. We had no agenda, but spent the morning quite productively talking abou ...
Last week Elizabeth Engel put up a very short post about a new TED conference focused on women, expressing her displeasure with "ghettoizing" women by creating a separate conference. The post then became one of ...
I am speaking to an association in Iowa next week on leadership, and a couple of the themes I'll be talking about are (a) how fast things change these days, and, somewhat related, (b) how social media is cha ...
Despite the title of this post, let me start by saying I am skeptical of our culture of continuous growth and continuous improvement. There's nothing wrong with improvement, I suppose, but it has been translated into ...
The second installment of Buzz 2010 was great on Tuesday. The topic was risk management and social media, and it's one I really need help on, because I've realized lately that I am probably a little TOO co ...
We spend a lot of time wringing our hands over the problems that "others" have in our lives. The Board isn't strategic enough. The boss doesn't understand me. That department over there is not ...
Monday this week was a holiday, so I was able to do something I rarely let myself do: I rested.I didn't go to the office. I didn't write some blog posts. I didn't catch up on email. I didn't put mulch dow ...
Monday this week was a holiday, so I was able to do something I rarely let myself do: I rested.I didn't go to the office. I didn't write some blog posts. I didn't catch up on email. I didn't put mulch dow ...
