Thanks to everyone who came to my session at the AAFP Annual Leadership Forum to hear me talk about creating tomorrow's organizations today. Feel free to download a PDF of the slides. (UPDATE: I fixed the link ...
Thanks to everyone who came to my session at the AAFP Annual Leadership Forum to hear me talk about creating tomorrow's organizations today. Feel free to download a PDF of the slides. (UPDATE: I fixed the link. ...
In my March e-newsletter, the question of the month was, basically, "What are you going to stop doing?" I have loved this theme for a long time (maybe Jim Collins was the first time I remember it being presented clearl ...
In my March e-newsletter, the question of the month was, basically, "What are you going to stop doing?" I have loved this theme for a long time (maybe Jim Collins was the first time I remember it being presente ...
Nearly six years ago I blogged about Gordon MacKenzie's awesome book, Orbiting the Giant Hairball. It is such an amazing book, I wanted to draw attention to it again. The title comes from MacKenzie's idea that or ...
If you haven't already, please look at the interesting dialogue between Jeff De Cagna and Eric Lanke about innovation. Eric is on the Board of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives and is involved in their ...
We love to focus on the beginning and the end. We like to develop our strategic plans, and we like to have our celebrations or evaluation meetings. But we don't often like what happens in the middle. That's where ...
I did some work last week with a volunteer group that was half way through it's year of activity. They were at a point where they wanted to look back at how the experience has been going so they could make adjustment ...
I am speaking to an association in Iowa next week on leadership, and a couple of the themes I'll be talking about are (a) how fast things change these days, and, somewhat related, (b) how social media is cha ...
Associations have a soft spot for wanting to make people happy. One of the mistakes we frequently make, since we all have diverse membership bases, is trying to please everyone. Trying to be everything to everyone. This ...
