The Truth About Change
My last two posts about truth have generated some of the best comments this blog has ever seen. I quoted Joe Gerstandt's comment in the second post, and that one generated an equally awesome comment from Lindy Dreyer ...
Category: Change
A Culture of Truth Starts at the Top (?)
I clearly have some issues with hierarchy, and since I'm all about systems, I often find myself pointing out ways that people who are NOT in official positions of power can work to make things happen, change things, ...
Leading Broken Organizations
Bruce Butterfield has created an interesting dialogue over on the ASAE listserve when he compared the association community to the struggling/dying industry of newspapers. Maddie posted about it, as did Peggy. Glen Tecke ...
Why Do We Resist Learning?
I am quite proud that my guest post over on the SocialFish blog on whether your organization is human enough for social media got so much traction that it is third(!) on their post ranks. I'd like to unpack the post ...
More on Being Human in Organizations
I have written two posts that are explicitly about being human this year. The first was building off Dan Oestreich's blog and the second was building off of Gary Hamel's awesome book, The Future of Manageme ...
The Discourse of Complaining
In my consulting work, I work with clients to solve problems. That, of course, means we have to clearly identify the problems, which, in turn, means I am guaranteed to spend time with people who are complaining. It see ...
Do You Have Time to Care About Learning?
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) published an article in their magazine recently by Tony Bingham about informal learning. These are training and development folks, so obviously their career focus ...
Laws of Attraction
I was able to briefly take part in the weekly "Association Chat" on twitter yesterday (if you didn't know about it, it's Tuesdays at 2pm eastern. Just follow #assnchat to take part in the conversation). The initial topic ...
The Power of Frustration
If you're at all interested in associations and social media, you likely have already heard about the "Power of A" campaign that ASAE & The Center has started--most notably the rather critical reaction ...
Is it happening to “them” or to you?
Did you read Jeff De Cagna's article in Associations Now? It's a good one. There was some interesting blog banter not too long ago about revolution versus incremental, and we all know Jeff's on the revolution ...