Set Up to Fail
I just posted over on the Always Done It That Way blog about an HBR article that talks about the “middle term” time horizon. I posted over there, because it ties in directly with the post from the book that I wrote about ...
New Article on Generational Diversity
I just had another article on Generations published—this time in Cooperative Housing Bulletin, a newsletter put out by the National Association of Housing Cooperatives. It draws heavily, as you might imagine, from the wo ...
The Toyota Way
There is an interview in HBR with Katsuaki Watanabe, who is the head of Toyota. Toyota is about to become the #1 car company in the world (in March of 2007 Toyota had a profit of $13.7 billion, compared to GM’s los of $1 ...
Who Takes the Credit for the Evaluation Results?
For those of you out there who hire speakers for your events, I found an interesting post by Shel Israel (author, with Robert Scoble, of Naked Conversations) about how HIS success as a keynote speaker was in large part a ...
Strauss and Howe in HBR
I am glad to see that William Strauss and Neil Howe have an article about generations in the current Harvard Business Review. I’ve always felt their book, Generations, was the best on this topic—but it was also quite “ol ...
The Power of Questions
There’s an article in Associations Now by Jim Camp about the power of questions. I particularly like one distinction he makes between “good” questions and “bad” ones. The bad ones start with verbs (Isn’t this what you re ...
Embracing Tension
Lots of authors are extolling the virtues of conflict these days, including Terry Paulson in an article in Associations Now (he’s also speaking at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting in Chicago). He talks about mana ...
Trust and Speed
In Associations Now, Newton Holt interviews Stephen M.R. Covey (son of the other Stephen Covey), who has a book out about trust in the business world. I particularly liked his response to Newton’s question about how to t ...
Wisdom of the Beach
I was a good boy and did hardly any work while I was on vacation—or even much deep thinking. But one beach-walking insight I think is worth sharing: Our most bitter complaints about leadership (management, the boss, our ...
Vacation
I will be on vacation next week. The family and I are heading to the beach (South Carolina version). I have no intention of blogging (although there will be internet access), and I haven't even pre-posted anything. You'l ...