Speaking the Truth
The October HBR has an interview with Rory Stewart, who has been involved in trying to do rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a remarkable person who has done amazing things, but I was struck by one part of the int ...
Category: Change
Re-Tuning Your Radar
Guy Kawasaki pointed me to an interesting report about internet trends done by Avenue A/Razorfish. You can get the 104 page report for free as a PDF. While the whole area of internet advertising and web site design is no ...
Do You Want Distinctive or Good?
Chip and Dan Heath now have a “Made to Stick” column in Fast Company (that’s the title of their book). June’s edition talks about word of mouth marketing and how products can be interesting enough to command a “conversat ...
Changing Culture
There is a nice piece about the strength of organizational culture in the Sloan Management Review. Researchers looked at “spinoff” companies to see if they could measure corporate culture and whether the spinoff companie ...
Forced Collaboration
Larry Bossidy has the cover story in HBR this month about what leaders expect of you and what you should expect of leaders. Bossidy wrote the book, Execution, with Ram Charan. He is a former exec, and his style is very s ...
The (Negative) Power of Context
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradi ...
Mindset
Guy Kawasaki points to an article by Stanford psychology professor, Carol Dweck about the role of “mindset” in success (in both business and family). Dweck seems to have a lot about raising children, but Kawasaki applied ...
The Power of Language
I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of language lately. There was an interesting discussion on ASAE & The Center’s Executive Management listserve not too long ago about changing the name of a Board of Directors ...
Rare Leadership Competencies
I posted on the Association Renewal blog about an HBR article about “Act II Leadership” because it’s about making change BEFORE things have gone completely downhill, a critical capacity in strategy making that too many o ...
Change Leadership
As a follow up to last week’s post about leadership and culture, I’ll point to yet another article in this month’s HBR (this month’s issue is certainly a keeper!). It’s actually a “best of” article that was originally pu ...