Lessons from the CEO Symposium
Last week I attended ASAE & The Center's CEO Symposium. I think this is one of their most successful programs, as it's been running multiple times per year for more than a decade. As a consultant, this is a p ...
Trauma Free Renewal
I am trying to get through Gary Hamel's The Future of Management because (a) it is totally awesome and (b) I have a long list of other books I want to read. So I'm going to start some of my reflections on the fir ...
Authority, Leadership, and Truth
I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That's authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I ex ...
Authenticity and Risk
I've been thinking a lot about "truth" lately. It started with the article I wrote and the session I did at the CalSAE conference in April. But a couple of weeks ago, inspired by Maddie's post, I challe ...
The People Side of Business
Kevin Holland pointed to an interview in the New York Times with Eduardo Castro-Wright, who is Vice Chairman of Wal-Mart. Castro-wright was somewhat critical of the status quo in the business world, including taking shot ...
Evolving Organizational Identity
Like Joe Gerstandt, I can't let the exquisite post by Maddie Grant about the paradox of identity go unremarked. Maddie was reflecting initially on the paradoxes of identity in the "digital age," where we cr ...
Laws of Attraction
I was able to briefly take part in the weekly "Association Chat" on twitter yesterday (if you didn't know about it, it's Tuesdays at 2pm eastern. Just follow #assnchat to take part in the conversation). The initial topic ...
Marketing to Millennials
I was in Germany this week (my first trip ever to that country) to do a presentation on Generations to a group of people who offer counseling services to U.S. military personnel and their families.You can also look for c ...
Leadership in Threes
I have been thinking about all the great points my friends made about leadership as part of the Top 3 meme (see all responses in this post). As is my way, I am trying to pull some themes out of what was written, which is ...
Leadership Top 3 Meme in its Entirety
I started the "Leadership Top 3" meme a few weeks ago (quite accidentally) and was excited to see eleven TWELVE THIRTEEN people post responses! It's a LOT of good stuff, and I'm working on some synthesi ...