On Friday I was in St. Louis doing a pre-conference session for an association client that covered a wide range of topics for their chapter leaders, including succession planning. My pet peeve with succession planning ...
I like this blog post on SmartBlog Insights that gives an HR perspective on how to manage things differently during the recession. Sometimes we get so stressed out about declining revenue and shortage of staff, th ...
A few weeks ago I wrote about the "discourse of complaining." While I am no fan of whining, I like that phrase because it reminds us that complaints actually are serious things--it is a way to identify the th ...
(Download a PDF of this program)Most organizations suffer because their people don’t tell the truth. This is not about individual integrity. It is about an organization’s internal capacity for allowing truth to be spoke ...
I have written two posts that are explicitly about being human this year. The first was building off Dan Oestreich's blog and the second was building off of Gary Hamel's awesome book, The Future of Manageme ...
Both the big picture and the little picture are important. Forest and trees. Got it. But why do we insist that the big picture is the responsibility of the "leaders" in an organization, and the details ...
I am back in the office this morning after completing (for the 8th time) a 291-mile bike ride from Pittsburgh to (almost) Gaithersburg in support of Operation Second Chance, a charity that supports wounded soldiers at W ...
Maddie Grant tossed out a bit of a weekend blog-grenade on Saturday with a meme targeted at Generation X titled "Have We Sold Out?" Her challenge to me and others she tagged:So go on, tell me my fellow Xe ...
In my consulting work, I work with clients to solve problems. That, of course, means we have to clearly identify the problems, which, in turn, means I am guaranteed to spend time with people who are complaining. It see ...
A lot of people who are doing social media in organizations, particularly associations, may resonate with the article on the Harvard Business Publishing blog that refers to "stranded evangelists." These are the ...
