Last week I blogged about people versus systems, and Jeff De Cagna added the following comment:Jamie, let's take this conversation into the volunteer realm, in which associations do not have all of the flexibility they w ...
There has been some conversation on the ASAE listserve about social responsibility and the environment: in short, can we change the way we do things (flying all over the place to attend meetings, for instance) so that we ...
Check out this well-written essay by Helen Mosher about Generation X and the value we bring as "translators" between Boomers and Millennials. It not only talks about some interesting dynamics that I have also n ...
That is the title of a class at Stanford Business School taught by Bob Sutton. Check out the description:DESCRIPTION: This class will immerse Stanford masters students in the practice and theory of spreading ideas that r ...
I have one more reflection about the Technology Conference from last week. As Reggie pointed out in his post, the buzz was much more about web 2.0 than it was about traditional technology "tools." The keynote s ...
I quite by accident stumbled across some notes I took when I read Seth Godin's 2002 book Survival Is Not Enough today. This quote seems worth repeating:The difference between a penguin and your company is simple: while y ...
My favorite "great idea" that emerged from last week's Great Ideas Conference, of course, did not come from one of the scheduled sessions. It was an informatil conversation during breakfast. One of the people a ...
I had some interesting experiences at last week's Great Ideas Conference in Orlando, Florida, so I plan on a couple of posts to talk about what I learned. At the beginning of the conference, I noticed that several of the ...
I was intrigued by a post on the Signals v. Noise blog today. Someone had asked them a question about how they resolved stalemates during their design process. Jason replied that they rarely have them because for most de ...
For two weeks in a row I've listened to a Havard Business School Publishing virtual seminar. This one was by Gary Hamel, speaking about his new book,The Future of Management. It was a GREAT session, and I will blog about ...
