Thanks to Kevin Holland for his blog response to yesterday's post. He is generally in agreement, but I couldn't help repeat this quote:You either want to be THIS, or you don’t. Before you decide that’s what you want to b ...
The October HBR has an interview with Rory Stewart, who has been involved in trying to do rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a remarkable person who has done amazing things, but I was struck by one part of the int ...
I recently discovered an interesting blog called Managing Leadership, by Jim Stroup. His last several posts have been a series that is challenging the notion that there is some kind of distinct leadership personality, th ...
Jon Katzenbach is a co-author of one of my favorite books, The Wisdom of Teams. He was a consultant at McKinsey and then created his own firm, Katzenbach Partners. They have recently released a report, titled The Informa ...
The Wall Street Journal announced the winners of their “Top Small Workplaces” for 2007, and then they asked the winners to recommend books for others who wanted to create great workplaces. The full list is here. Four of ...
Tom Peters has a very interesting point on his blog about the basic principles that underlie all the good management books out there. He argues that the basic principles get less attention than do the newest programs in ...
Guy Kawasaki pointed me to an interesting report about internet trends done by Avenue A/Razorfish. You can get the 104 page report for free as a PDF. While the whole area of internet advertising and web site design is no ...
Mark your calendars: I will be speaking at the next Great Ideas Conference, put on by ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership. The conference is December 7-9, 2007, and it will be at Disney’s Yacht and Beach Clu ...
There is an article in the September issue of Harvard Business Review that talks about “Investigative Negotiation.” It suggests that to succeed in negotiations, you should treat them like a “crime scene.” It has an air o ...
Today someone posted the following on a listserver to which I subscribe:I have a consulting assignment in a few weeks with a board of aprofessional membership association.While most of the time will be spent in building ...
