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 ...
We Have Always Done It That Way, the book I wrote with Jeff, David, Mickie, and Amy, was featured as the cover story in Association Meetings magazine this month. Many thanks to fellow blogger Sue Pelletier for writing th ...
I had a super time at the Great Ideas conference, although the notes in my learning journal are a little sparse this year. That is partially because I did have to skip a session or two in order to continue re-creating my ...
Well, it is back to the real world after a very restful vacation. Not only did I forego blogging entirely during the break, I even went four days without any internet connectivity. That was nice, until I came back to the ...
Please check out the article in this month’s Forum magazine by my good friend, Jeff De Cagna, about social media strategy (and thanks, Jeff, for plugging our book in the article!). I particularly like what he had to say ...
Okay, here is my favorite post from the We Have Always Done It That Way book. This one came directly out of several different client projects I had going on at the same time. They were making slower progress than I thoug ...
Almost to number 1! This is definitely one of my favorites, and it ties into much of the work that Jeff and I do over at Association Renewal in our "Building Strategic Capacity" projects. I actually first put t ...
Thanks to Nick Senzee for posting a review of We Have Always Done It That Way over on "Nick's Book Blog." Check it out. ...
There are two pieces to this post, and the first is a call to action (the second will be the background that explains it in more detail). So here’s the action part. My friend Jeff De Cagna currently as a “manifesto” prop ...
Time for another one of my top five postings from the Always Done It That Way book. This one is number three on the list, and it is about avoiding that sticky discussion of who actually is “in charge.” Avoiding Clarity A ...
