Last week I blogged about people versus systems, and Jeff De Cagna added the following comment:Jamie, let's take this conversation into the volunteer realm, in which associations do not have all of the flexibility they w ...
There has been some conversation on the ASAE listserve about social responsibility and the environment: in short, can we change the way we do things (flying all over the place to attend meetings, for instance) so that we ...
Chris Bailey wrote a nice post a few days ago about systems versus people. He quotes two of my favorite authors, Pfeffer and Sutton, who argue that systems will trump individual effort, so before you fire that bad person ...
Seth Godin wrote a blog post about why blogging helps you become a better writer. Here's one point that particularly caught my attention:4. It's okay if you leave. Bloggers aren't afraid to include links or distractions ...
Seth Godin wrote a blog post about why blogging helps you become a better writer. Here's one point that particularly caught my attention:4. It's okay if you leave. Bloggers aren't afraid to include links or distractions ...
Check out this well-written essay by Helen Mosher about Generation X and the value we bring as "translators" between Boomers and Millennials. It not only talks about some interesting dynamics that I have also n ...
It's a little late to be reporting 2007 statistics (so sue me), but I finally looked at the numbers for views/downloads of the articles I have up (for free) on my website. In 2007 the articles were downloaded 14,501 time ...
That is the title of a full article in HBR this month and it absolutely caught my attention. Think about it: if someone says, "So, what's your strategy this year?" how would you answer? Would you forward them a ...
Wow, everyone got mad at Twitter all of a sudden! For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is an online communication tool that has been described as "microblogging." Basically you can "post" messages ...
Wow, everyone got mad at Twitter all of a sudden! For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is an online communication tool that has been described as "microblogging." Basically you can "post" messages ...
