I started a Meme
Without intending it, I seemed to have started a meme with my "Top 3" post last week on leadership. I wrote it thinking about what advice I would be giving someone early in their career so they could focus on d ...
4. Coaching and Mediation
Ultimately, your organization is made up of individuals, and whether you've got people issues, inefficient processes, or sticky problems, sometimes the performance of the whole system can be improved as a result of focus ...
3. Speaking and Training
Sometimes, the best way to increase capacity is through education. I can help educate the stakeholders in your system about issues that will make a real difference to your organization. I do this through keynote sp ...
2. Consulting and Facilitation
My consulting and facilitation projects focus on groups of people and how they get things done. If there are people issues in a team, I can design a consulting project to identify and resolve the issues. If processes are ...
Becoming a Leader: My Top 3 List
Aaron Wolowiec put up a post on Acronym asking about the difference between a leader and a visionary and, more importantly, how you become one (kudos, by the way, to ASAE & The Center for putting a young professional ...
1. Consulting Services
As Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness at Management Solutions Plus, I offer a range of consulting, training, and speaking services to clients both in and out of the association community. If you're reading th ...
Strategy and Structural Break
Thanks to Ann Oliveri for pointing me to an article that McKinsey put out on "Strategy in a Structural Break." The author is from UCLA and provided a fresh perspective to some of the other stuff I see on strate ...
Oh Yeah…We're Human Beings
Thanks to Etienne Laliberté of the Contrarian Thinking blog for including me among a list of favorite blog posts--not only because it was nice and might have diverted a few more people to my Strategy in Four Words or Les ...
Oh Yeah…We’re Human Beings
Thanks to Etienne Laliberté of the Contrarian Thinking blog for including me among a list of favorite blog posts--not only because it was nice and might have diverted a few more people to my Strategy in Four Words or Les ...
Strategy in Four Words or Less
Last year I wrote a post titled "Consultants Suck." In it, I made reference to a strategy weekend I did for an association client. It wasn't a full-blown strategic plan (those of you who know me understand ...