Thanks to the great people at the TSAE conference who came to my "Truth and Authenticity in the Digital Age" session. As promised, here are some resources: Link to the presentation Handout that includes my &quo ...
The opening round of ASAE recap blog posts have been a bit of a downer. This does not surprise me given the conversations I was having with friends of colleagues towards the end. For one reason or another, the meeting ju ...
Permit me to sound like a keynote speaker for a minute... If there's ONE THING you remember from this blog post it's this: (dramatic pause...) the reason your organization sucks, is fear. I write about a lot of t ...
That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of ...
That was the topic of my keynote presentation earlier this week for the Iowa State Education Association. The organizations we work in today are ones we inherited. They are yesterday's organizations, and too many of ...
My speaking schedule brought me through Omaha, Nebraska yesterday, which afforded me the great luxury of some face time with Joe Gerstandt. We had no agenda, but spent the morning quite productively talking abou ...
Despite the title of this post, let me start by saying I am skeptical of our culture of continuous growth and continuous improvement. There's nothing wrong with improvement, I suppose, but it has been translated into ...
I've written a lot about truth lately--maybe I should also write about "patience," because patience, like truth, it is one of those words that tends to have fairly complex meaning to people--yet everyone de ...
I am excited to announce that the article I wrote for Associations Now about Truth is now available online. I was floored when I saw that it was going to be the cover story for June! I don't know when the print issue ...
Did anyone out there remember buying or reading Exploring the Future: Seven Strategic Conversations that Could Transform Your association? It was a book put out by ASAE and the ASAE Foundation and written by Robert Olson ...
