Four Tips for Building Trust
Here's a follow up to my last post (slides from my session on building trust between Boards and members). In the presentation I talked about four ways to build trust. I won't go into all the details, but here' ...
Category: Leadership
Trust as a Secret Weapon
I had a great time on Wednesday speaking to the Virginia Association of Realtors Leadership conference on the topic of building trust between members and the board. One of the first papers I ever had published was on tru ...
Trust and Communication
I'm speaking about trust tomorrow, so I plan on a few more blog posts on the topic, but this is just a quick reflection on a post from my new favorite blog, Ben's Blog, from Ben Horowitz, a venture capitalist. Th ...
Book Review: The Truth About Leadership
Given my attraction to both issues of truth and leadership, I couldn't resist getting this book on my iPad, though, in fact, Kouzes and Posner are established leadership authors, and their book from the 1980s, ...
A Different Take on Strategy
Strategy is a concept that I love, but at the same time it really bugs me. It's a seemingly simple idea (we all have an intuitive sense of what being strategic is), and we have all talked it to death when it comes to ...
What Generation is Your Organizational Culture?
This was an insight that I was able to articulate at my recent generational diversity training. As I was going over the four generations in the workplace, I found myself almost feeling a bit guilty about talking too much ...
Social Organization Posts on SocialFishing
In case any of you didn't realize it, I do a regular monthly blog post on the world famous Socialfishing blog. The title of my column is "the social organization," and I write about the intersection of soci ...
The (Dangerous) Focus on Individuals
It's almost election time, which means I am now being pitched left and right (so to speak) about which candidate I should elect. Which individual I should send to Washington (or Annapolis, etc.) who will either turn ...
"Not Withering" is not the same as "Flourishing"
I'm not sure I want to dredge up the whole "relevance" debate, but this post from CV Harquail makes some really good points that I think better explains some of what I was trying to say by moving "beyo ...
“Not Withering” is not the same as “Flourishing”
I'm not sure I want to dredge up the whole "relevance" debate, but this post from CV Harquail makes some really good points that I think better explains some of what I was trying to say by moving "beyo ...