I’m still catching up with blogs after ignoring them for a week while I was at the annual meeting. There was a good post by Guy Kawasaki I want to point out, though. Since it’s back to school time, he wrote a list of thi ...
I’m still catching up with blogs after ignoring them for a week while I was at the annual meeting. There was a good post by Guy Kawasaki I want to point out, though. Since it’s back to school time, he wrote a list of thi ...
Okay, I’ve started reading the Gerzon book on conflict. I’ve hardly read anything yet, so I don’t particularly have a real update on what the book says compared to the Associations Now article. However, in response to Di ...
I’ve been working very hard this week on my presentation that I will deliver at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting next Saturday, in Boston. The title of the session is “Overcoming your Association’s Fear of Confli ...
Associations Now has an article by Mark Gerzon about “bridging leadership.” Gerzon comes from the conflict resolution field, and has a new book titled Leading Through Conflict (I just ordered it, so expect some more from ...
HBR’s summer issue is about sales—not really the focus of my work. But there was a good one about stopping the “war” between the sales and marketing departments. I like this one, because even if your organization doesn’t ...
In the Forethought section of this month’s Harvard Business Review, there’s a nice piece about conflict in teams. Its basic message seems identical, actually, to the message in Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a T ...
Thanks to Hallely Azulay of Talentgrow for pointing me to this article about the cost of conflict in organizations. An alternative dispute resolution company in Europe did some research to try to quantify how much confli ...
Two articles does not make a trend, but I can’t help but notice that two of my favorite sources of business literature (ones that tend to be supportive of my approach to the “human side” of organizations) have recently p ...
For those of you that will be attending the ASAE & The Center annual meeting in Boston this August, I'll be doing a session about conflict. I've done a lot of sessions for ASAE & The Center, but this is the first ...
