Book Tour: Open Community
Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant published their first book this week. W00t! It's called Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web. They gave me an advance copy and even put ...
Category: Books and Reading
Book Review: Getting Naked by Patrick Lencioni
I think I've said several times on this blog that Patrick Lencioni is my favorite business author. I like the way he delivers his material in the form of a story, complete with characters and drama and plot (but if ...
The Future Is Now
Did anyone out there remember buying or reading Exploring the Future: Seven Strategic Conversations that Could Transform Your association? It was a book put out by ASAE and the ASAE Foundation and written by Robert Olson ...
Get My Generational Ebook for Free
I am feeling generous and have decided to give away my ebook on Generational Diversity in the Workplace for free, at least for a limited time. I wrote the book in 2007. It's about 60 pages and it covers the basics of ge ...
Book Review: Corporate Jestership
Associations Now published an article not too long ago by David Riveness titled "Bring in the Jester: Encouraging Open Interaction in the Workplace." I blogged about it, because I thought it made some important ...
What I am Reading
Before I forget, Joe Raasch, of the Happy Burro Blog, tagged me on a "What are You reading" blog chain letter, so here goes. Also, for some reason I'm supposed to quote sentences six through eight of page 123 o ...
Review of The Speed of Trust
In talking about trust in my last post, I reminded myself that I had not yet done a full review of Stephen M.R. Covey's book, The Speed of Trust. I did three blog posts that were each mini-reviews of parts of the book (h ...
Yet Another Article on Generational Diversity
I have an article in the most recent Journal of Association Leadership on the topic of generational diversity. It's online here (not sure if you have to be a member to access it). It covers some (but not all!) of the mat ...
Speed of Trust (3): Behaviors and Counterfeits
Okay, I have done two posts about Covey's Speed of Trust book (here and here). Covey has five "waves" of trust. The first is self trust and focuses on what YOU need to do to be trustworthy and trust others. Th ...
Speed of Trust (2) and Generations
This is the second in a series of I don't know how many posts (here's the first) about Stephen M. R. Covey's The Speed of Trust book. So far, I've only read the part about the first "wave" of trust: self-trust. I made th ...