This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the Fluid Power Association. How does an association executive build and sustain the culture of his organization? Specifically, what is his role versus others in the or ...
If you are out there actually changing your culture, then I need to prepare you for the inevitable. Well, maybe "inevitable" is too strong a word. But after you make progress moving in the direction of the desired cultur ...
Strategic moves can be copied, or at least emulated. We can study what other companies do strategically, and then copy, to some extent, their approach within our context. Strategies and the organizations they are attache ...
Most organizations don't talk about their culture too much. We're too busy doing the work, and the culture sits in the background mostly. It's how we do things here, but that doesn't mean we need to talk about it. It is ...
I saw on the HBR blog that Zappos no longer does job postings. They had 30,000 applications for only 300 positions, and it was becoming cumbersome. Instead, they have created a Zappos Insider program where people can sim ...
Jack Dorsey, one of the Twitter Founders and now CEO at Square, sent a quick memo to his employees (that he also posted publicly on Medium) about something that may sound somewhat unimportant: using other people's names ...
As I mentioned in last week's post, Maddie and I spoke last week to some very different audiences--one made up of technology folks from some very large, global companies, and the other made up of mostly association execu ...
Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser Kodak, once a $10 billion dollar company, failed. Just when they needed to innovate the most, they focused on optimization instead. Innovation and optimization are at either ends of the sp ...
Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their mem ...
Just a quick post to remind everyone of a universal lesson: the grass is always greener on the other side. This week I've made presentations to some very different audiences. One group was made up of managers at reall ...
