I'm putting up my top five posts from our We Have Always Done It That Way book. You can see number five here, and number four has to do with conflict and email. I am planning on expanding on this post, by the way, and wr ...
I am very excited about the positive reactions we have been getting from people who have read our new book. Jesse Wilkins posted a review of the book on his blog, and then was kind enough to post the review on the Lulu s ...
Our book has arrived! I am very excited to see the finished product of something that four very dear people and I have been working on for nearly a year. We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We ...
Okay, I’ve started reading the Gerzon book on conflict. I’ve hardly read anything yet, so I don’t particularly have a real update on what the book says compared to the Associations Now article. However, in response to Di ...
Associations Now has an article by Mark Gerzon about “bridging leadership.” Gerzon comes from the conflict resolution field, and has a new book titled Leading Through Conflict (I just ordered it, so expect some more from ...
Sorry for the brief hiatus, but the family and I were on vacation last week (and now I am having trouble adjusting to the real world!). And despite all the good business-related books I want to (or should) read, I chose ...
My apologies to regular readers of the Association Renewal Blog (since I just announced this over there), but I want everyone to know that we have finished writing the "Always Done It That Way" book. If you rem ...
In 1973 the government issued a report on “Work in America,” that was apparently “explosive” in reporting the alienation of blue collar workers and the “search by women for a new identity,” according to an article in Fas ...
I've mentioned this before, but I'm one of five authors of a book we have titled, We've Always Done It That Way: 101 Things We Must Change About Associations. We've been writing the book "publically", by postin ...
Trust gets mentioned a lot in organizations. I agree it is a terribly important thing, but it is often put up too high on a pedestal. You hear things like:It’s important that we trust each other here.I want you to know t ...
