I am off to give a keynote speech about generational diversity this morning to folks at a federal government agency. So obviously I’ve been rehearsing my talk, editing my slides, etc. But it has been hard because I have ...
I redesigned my website. The old design had been there just a bit too long, and over time I kept adding bits and pieces here and there—and it showed. So I cleaned up the design and reorganized things a bit. I am happy wi ...
Cam Marston has an article in Fast Company about myths about the younger generations. Finally! I heard Marston speak at the ASAE Membership and Marketing symposium a couple of years ago, and I wasn’t too impressed. I fel ...
Last month we sold our 1,000th copy of We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We Must Change. When we wrote the book, we had absolutely no target for sales. Of course the more people that buy it t ...
Although I don’t need a new book to put on my list, Guy Kawasaki points me to one that looks very interesting: Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (and Most Expensive Liability), by David Marcum and Steven Smith ...
Tom Peters did some end-of-summer thinking about why he does what he does, and wrote it up in a little white paper. Here is the first sentence (without his parenthetical clauses and some editing):Passionate servant leade ...
Seth Godin posts something he wrote four years ago in is blog, but some of its points I think are timeless. It’s mostly about what it means to work hard. In manual labor, that was easy to measure, but what about when we ...
With the recent discussion of the evils of PowerPoint among association bloggers (Mickie, Mickie, and Dave) I thought it was interesting that Seth Godin did a post on his blog recently about how NOT to present data and c ...
My last post generated quite a few comments. I think this generational issue—the affinity that Boomers share with Millennials—will continue to get attention in the next few years. I didn’t cover this issue in my e-book. ...
The Future of Work Blog pointed me to an article in the Wall Street Journal about how Baby Boomers can learn about succeeding in the workplace from Generation Y. I do like the notion that mentoring is a two-way street, a ...
