The Future Is Now
Did anyone out there remember buying or reading Exploring the Future: Seven Strategic Conversations that Could Transform Your association? It was a book put out by ASAE and the ASAE Foundation and written by Robert Olson ...
Happiness Isn't the Right Metric
At dinner the other night a colleague implied that money is rarely the reason people leave jobs--if they were happier at their current job, they wouldn't be looking around, or at least they would feel more s ...
Happiness Isn’t the Right Metric
At dinner the other night a colleague implied that money is rarely the reason people leave jobs--if they were happier at their current job, they wouldn't be looking around, or at least they would feel more s ...
The Corporate versus Nonprofit Debate
Disclosure: I have never really worked in the corporate world. My current position--where I consult to and manage nonprofit organizations--is actually the first time in my life I've worked for a for-profit corporatio ...
Cultivating Strategy
Last Monday I suggested that strategic planning is skewed (in an unhealthy way) towards relevance. On Wednesday, I made the case that social media has some lessons for us in this area--the way social media uses continuou ...
Working with Other Humans Is Not Optional
A big part of conflict resolution is problem solving, and one of the biggest parts of problem solving is defining the problem. I was reminded of this when I came across this great comic over on this blog: We throw up ou ...
The Missing Link in Strategic Planning
Monday's post talked about the relationship between strategic planning and relevance. In short, the typical process we use for strategic planning (scan-plan-implement-evaluate) actually skews us towards remaining mer ...
Strategic Planning Is Worse than Dead: It's Relevant
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while ...
Strategic Planning Is Worse than Dead: It’s Relevant
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while ...
Leadership Skills: Curiosity
This is the third of three leadership skills for the 21st century. The first was truth, the second was courage, and I wrote about the mindsets that provide the background last week. The last skill set I want to talk abou ...