The Work of Forgiveness
I think forgiveness and reconciliation is absolutely the hardest part of conflict resolution. Back when I did work in the international conflict resolution field, I saw this first hand. We could help parties negotiate be ...
Thoughts About Wikipedia
Wikipedia has caught my attention lately. First, in the article I blogged about yesterday in the October HBR, Scott Cook from Intuit is talking about using volunteers to help for-profit companies build their businesses. ...
Businesses Competing for Volunteers
The October HBR is chock full of "myth of control" articles. I mentioned a small one yesterday, but the lead article by Scott Cook of Intuit (maker of Quicken) is all about "harnessing the masses" by ...
Radical Corporate Transparency
Given the push back I get when I suggest thinking about why we keep salary figures secret, I wonder what the reaction will be to the piece in the October Harvard Business Review where Dave Balter, CEO of BzzAgent describ ...
Can't Win for Losing
After my experience a few weeks ago where the group I was facilitating had a very tough time with the loose structure I placed on the meeting, I went to Los Angeles last week to do work with a different group and felt be ...
Can’t Win for Losing
After my experience a few weeks ago where the group I was facilitating had a very tough time with the loose structure I placed on the meeting, I went to Los Angeles last week to do work with a different group and felt be ...
Things You Don't Know About Me Meme
Maddie "Reigning Blog Rookie of the Year" Grant has tagged me in the good ol' Tell us five things we don't know about you blogging meme. She tagged me and some other long time bloggers, pointing out tha ...
Things You Don’t Know About Me Meme
Maddie "Reigning Blog Rookie of the Year" Grant has tagged me in the good ol' Tell us five things we don't know about you blogging meme. She tagged me and some other long time bloggers, pointing out that the association ...
Publishing Everyone's Salaries: Not Just My Idea
I caught a little big of flack a few months ago when I suggested total transparency around financial information in organizations, which included telling everyone what everyone else made. A few people pointed out to me t ...
Publishing Everyone’s Salaries: Not Just My Idea
I caught a little big of flack a few months ago when I suggested total transparency around financial information in organizations, which included telling everyone what everyone else made. A few people pointed out to me t ...