Speed of Trust (1)
I heard Stephen M.R. Covey speak about his book The Speed of Trust at the ASAE Annual Meeting in Chicago last summer. It's taken me forever to get to the book, but I'm starting to review it. Instead of doing one big book ...
Category: Books and Reading
Aw Shucks…
I am humbled by the glowing reviews of my "Who's In Charge?" article that Virgil Carter and Kerry Stackpole provided as comments to my last post. But they also reminded me of something I forgot to mention: ASAE ...
Who’s In Charge?
For my association friends (who I assume are members of ASAE & The Center), the November issue of Associations Now should be hitting your mailbox soon, and I've got an article in there titled "Who's In Charge?&q ...
Who's In Charge?
For my association friends (who I assume are members of ASAE & The Center), the November issue of Associations Now should be hitting your mailbox soon, and I've got an article in there titled "Who's In Charge?&q ...
Good Reading
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 ...
Another Review of The No A**hole Rule
Not too long ago I reviewed Bob Sutton’s book, The No Asshole Rule, on my web site. I just discovered another review of the book, written by association executive Bob Hall. He actually does a very brief summary of each c ...
Solving Tough Problems, by Adam Kahane
My reflections about generations yesterday reminded me, as I mentioned, of a book by Adam Kahane called Solving Tough Problems. I'm really glad I re-opened the book. I read it a while ago, but never did a review on my we ...
Milestone
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 ...
Summer Reading List
The Tom Peters blog pointed me to a post listing THE top 5 books executives should read. I’ve got three down, two to go. ...
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 ...