Strategy is Hard Work
I facilitated some strategy work with a client two weekends ago, and it was hard work. I pushed them hard on identifying the missing "middle level thinking" in their strategy. They had some success, and even wi ...
Change them or change you?
I know I've written about this before, but it bears repeating:The only thing you control is your own behavior.Period. Of course you can have conversations with others about their behavior. I am a big fan of giving pe ...
The Jester Speaks the Truth
If you're flipping through the most recent Associations Now and end up skipping the article titled "Bring in the Jester" because you think it's a fluff piece about having more fun in the workplace, PLEA ...
Gaming the System
Here's another quote from the Harvard Business Review article about Pixar. Last week I wrote about the difference between communicating and deciding. Today it's an interesting quote about postmortems. I am a big ...
Communicating versus Deciding
I am ashamed at how long it has been since I covered an interesting article in Harvard Business Review. In fact, I'm not going to look back to see how long it has been! But on a plane ride I managed to read the Septe ...
A School of SocialFish
I am a huge fans of both Lindy Dryer and Maddie Grant. They are both relative newcomers to the Association Blogging world, but they are already running circles around veterans like me these days. One thing I like about b ...
Listening and Leadership
Thanks to Joe Gerstandt for pointing me to an article by Otto Scharmer on the "Blind Spot" of leadership. Honestly, I get mixed feelings when I read articles like this. At one level I am very excited by the dep ...
How Do You Know It Worked?
Blogging and Twitter superstar Maddie Grant actually posted all the comments she got on her evaluation form when she and Jeff De Cagna did a pecha kucha session at the ASAE annual meeting in San Diego. I thought their se ...
With All Due Respect…
With all due respect, I think we should eliminate the phrase "with all due respect" from use! I hear it all the time, and it ostensibly is trying to reassure someone that even though I disagree with you, that d ...
Ride Allegheny
I am taking a break from work (and blogging) to do my annual bike ride from Pittsburgh, PA to Gaithersburg, MD. It's about 300 miles over four days with a bunch of friends who have been doing this trip now for eight year ...