Managing Online Conflict
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, there was a bit of a blowup in one of the online communities to which I belong. The American Society of Association Executives has an active private online community, and the other day ...
Category: Conflict
Better Decision Making
Today I am delivering a pilot version of a workshop on strategic risk and decision making for management teams, co-delivered with Elizabeth Engel and Leslie White. Leslie is leading the discussion on risk and Elizabeth i ...
What’s the Value of Reporting Relationships?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? Or have you simply taken it all for granted? Why do we have them in our organizations? What's their purpose? What value do they bring to the organization? Those aren't purel ...
Making Conflict Work for Your Organization
My second White Paper in the "Making it Work" series is out! Click here to go to the download form and get it for free. This one is about one of my favorite topics: conflict. I started my career twenty years ago in th ...
Advice on Leadership, Conflict, and Diversity
I was interviewed by the folks at Reputation.com for their blog, including questions about conflict, trust, performance reviews, and culture. Check it out. ...
The Increasing Importance of Internal Collaboration
A few weeks ago I wrote about a "window of opportunity" that organizational leaders have now. In short, "social business" (integrating social tools and principles into the way you lead and manage organizations) is not fu ...
Silos and Conflict
People have been complaining about "silos" in organizations for years and years. In solving one problem (putting people together in a department in order to deepen expertise and be efficient), we created some new ones (t ...
Like Big Data? Prepare Your Organization
There is a fairly straightforward post on the HBR blog about putting big data to use. The article provides guidelines to companies who recognize the potential of big data, but aren't sure where to start. It provides guid ...
Book Review: Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus by Michael Roberto Wharton School Publishing, 2005 Although the words are not in the title, this is a book about decision making. As a ...
Humanize Presentation at #intchg12
Thanks everyone who came out to the AICPA Interchange conference early for my pre-conference session on "Succeeding in the 21st Century Association." The slides are embedded below (and are available on slideshare). I al ...