Shaking Up Patterns
This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown's Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. I went through this program 11 years ago myself (though it didn't have ...
Category: Change
Changing the World in 2012
Maddie tagged me in a "how are you going to change the world in 2012" meme in a blog post last week. She was inspired by this post by Craig Newmark, and now she's asked a whole host of us to talk about what we're going t ...
The Future Will Look and Feel Different
I suppose that sounds obvious, but when I talk to people about changing the way they lead and manage organizations, I'm not so sure it's that obvious. Instead, there seems to be a default assumption that in the future, m ...
Book Review: Predictable Success
A few weeks ago, Maddie and I were interviewed about Humanize by Les McKeown. Les is a best-selling author of a book titled Predictable Success, and we were interviewed for his blog. I was really impressed with him durin ...
Making Silos Work
Everybody hates organizational silos. They are a problem. They get in the way. They need to be "busted." And to some extent, I agree. The way our different departments seem to erect walls separating them from each other ...
The Deeper Issues Behind Race for Relevance
I have had the book Race for Relevance: 5 Radical Changes for Associations for a couple of months now, wanting to do a review here in the blog. I struggled a bit, though, because I am of two minds about the book. There i ...
The Beauty of Competing Narratives
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we make the case that organizations, in general, are not adapting fast enough to our changing times. And we don't pull any punches. We actually say that best practices are "evil." We suggest (ci ...
Rethinking Measurement
Thanks to David Patt, whose comment on an Acronym post pointed me to a really good article by Matthew Forti about measurement for nonprofits. The Acronym post was from Scott Briscoe, building off of Joe Rominiecki's noti ...
You Are Not the Center of the Universe
I already did an overall recap post on the ASAE Annual Meeting over on the Common Thread blog with some big picture reactions to the event. Here I wanted to dig into some of the issues a little more deeply, and there's o ...
Learning and Change
As I mentioned last week on the SocialFish blog, social organizations are serious about learning. Not just learning at conferences, but deep organizational learning. While I doubt there are many who would argue against m ...