I was having an interesting conversation yesterday with an association executive about the phenomenon of trying to say yes to everyone. It seems to be a common occurrence in the association world. We say yes to everyone, ...
David Patt over on the Association Executive Management blog recently attended a session for CEOs about employee engagement, and one of the CEOs asked the following question:Why it is OK to leave the office early for a f ...
I've made reference in a few different blog posts (here recently and here from the Association Renewal blog) to my concern about our society's obsession with answers. Patti Digh recently referred me to this blog post abo ...
This was one of the most important learnings/insights that I took away from the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting this year. It was a statement that my new favorite person, Patti Digh, made during the opening session ...
Maddie Grant put up a stupendous post on the first day of the ASAE Annual Meeting in San Diego. She did a session in San Diego, and it was her first time speaking, and in preparation she discovered an equally super post ...
Thanks Jeff for chiming in on my rant against strategic planning. It reminded me, however, that I had wanted to point to YOUR previous post about best practices so I could take my turn chiming in. Jeff quotes Dave Polla ...
Thanks to Kristin Clarke on Acronym for pointing to a good ChangeThis manifesto: People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You Are Trying to Change Them. This is a free download, by the way (if you don't know about ChangeT ...
As I mentioned in the last post, Jim Stroup did a series of posts last week about conflict and leadership. It was based on his review of the work of Mary Parker Follett. I love to see the topic covered, of course, and I ...
Patti Digh said this today on Twitter: "What would happen if we could give up our attachment to being right?" A powerful question, I think. And it reminded me that I had wanted to post about this topic. Before ...
Blogger Matt Baehr has been posting some interesting comments on Clay Shirky's book, Here Comes Everybody, particularly on the notion of self-forming groups as threats to associations. B-Mart has chimed in as well. When ...
