Maddie was the first to fire a shot in response to the double strategic planning articles that ASAE and the Center just published. The Journal of Association Leadership published "The Development of Consensus Guidel ...
I've been at my new job for exactly two months now, so I think it is time to officially announce my secret plan to convert my fellow co-workers into social media evangelists. Okay, maybe not evangelists, but I would at l ...
Thanks to Kristin Clarke on Acronym for pointing to a good ChangeThis manifesto: People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You Are Trying to Change Them. This is a free download, by the way (if you don't know about ChangeT ...
As I mentioned in the last post, Jim Stroup did a series of posts last week about conflict and leadership. It was based on his review of the work of Mary Parker Follett. I love to see the topic covered, of course, and I ...
Patti Digh said this today on Twitter: "What would happen if we could give up our attachment to being right?" A powerful question, I think. And it reminded me that I had wanted to post about this topic. Before ...
I am on vacation at the beach in South Carolina. I haven't even been able to look at my work email. It's been great! So I don't have much substance in me for this post, so instead I'll just send you over to Lisa Junker's ...
I stumbled across a few things this week that illuminate the importance of language. The first was a funny website put up by Kivi Leroux Miller on "Nonprofit Buzzword Bingo." Buzzword Bingo has been around for a while ...
There's a lot going on, so let me run some of it down for you. 1. The ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting in San Diego is rapidly approaching. I'm not doing any sessions on conflict this year, but I am co-facilitating t ...
Blogger Matt Baehr has been posting some interesting comments on Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everybody, particularly on the notion of self-forming groups as threats to associations. B-Mart has chimed in as well. When ...
Blogger Matt Baehr has been posting some interesting comments on Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everybody, particularly on the notion of self-forming groups as threats to associations. B-Mart has chimed in as well. When ...
