More on Jerks and Bullies
First, in case you didn’t see, Lisa Junker (of ASAE & The Center and the Acronym blog) posted a nice comment about Bob Sutton’s book. She rightly points out that one of the best parts of his book is the way he owns u ...
Category: Books and Reading
The No Asshole Rule
We will see if the email subscribers actually get this post, given the title, but hey, it is actually the title of a good book I read lately. The subtitle is much more palatable: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviv ...
What Were They Thinking?
I’ve already quoted it on the Association Renewal Blog, but Guy Kawasaki has an interview on his blog with Jeffrey Pfeffer, who apparently has a new book out, called What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About M ...
Strategic Planning Horror Stories
My friend Jeff and I are writing a book about strategy work in associations. One of our main points is that strategic planning is not only dead--it's actually killing us. As such, we are looking for stories from people w ...
Do We Want Our Conclusions Challenged?
The spring issue of the Journal of Association Leadership is out, and it contains an article that summarizes ASAE & The Center’s Seven Measures of Success research report. I skimmed the article (having already read t ...
Review of "Send"
Allow me to predict the future: You will either send or receive an email today. Okay, that wasn’t a stretch, but given how universal and voluminous email is in our world today, it seems odd that very few of us have been ...
Review of “Send”
Allow me to predict the future: You will either send or receive an email today. Okay, that wasn’t a stretch, but given how universal and voluminous email is in our world today, it seems odd that very few of us have been ...
Good Review of Generational Diversity in the Workplace
Ben Martin (of the Certified Association Executive Blog) wrote a FANTASTIC review of my e-book on Generational Diversity. So if you want the one-page version of what I wrote about, take a look at his blog. I think he sum ...
Get A Free Copy of the E-Book
Thanks to my friend and "partner in crime" (his words) Jeff De Cagna for doing a little promotion on my new e-book. He is actually giving six copies away to association executives via his Principled Innovation ...
Book Review: Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer
All this magazine reading, and I’ve been very remiss in reading books. I have been revamping the text on my website, and I realized that I USED TO do a book review periodically, but it has been forever! So I took the ti ...