Last week I blogged about people versus systems, and Jeff De Cagna added the following comment:Jamie, let's take this conversation into the volunteer realm, in which associations do not have all of the flexibility they w ...
Chris Bailey wrote a nice post a few days ago about systems versus people. He quotes two of my favorite authors, Pfeffer and Sutton, who argue that systems will trump individual effort, so before you fire that bad person ...
There is a nice, brief article in the Forethought section of HBR this month about the issue of delivering bad news to bosses. Everyone knows that as a boss it is important to receive bad news. The dynamics of systems whe ...
Mike Mason called me out on Twitter to post about the meeting I went to this morning at ASAE & The Center about Board-Staff communication, so here goes. There were two association CEOs presenting, one of whom brought ...
Thanks again to Ann Oliveri for pointing to a good Seth Godin post. This one gets (slightly) political, as Godin makes the case for Hillary Clinton quitting her Presidential bid. He really isn't talking politics, though: ...
I liked Ben Martin's writing about fear, and Jeff's post about it being time to move on. They made simple and, I think, powerful arguments that the objections that are frequently raised about the risks of social media ar ...
In case you stopped following the comment thread on my "Myth of Control" post, there was an interesting addition lately. Randy, an association CEO, posted a lengthy and interesting comment. I point to it for a ...
I haven't read the article yet, but Ann Oliveri pointed me to the cover story in Fast Company magazine about Google and this great quote:"We argue about strategy and whether our products are good or bad, whether we' ...
Several cross-sections of my life seem to be intersecting this week around the theme of "paradox." Here are two of the dictionary.com definitions of the word, paradox:1. a statement or proposition that seems se ...
I ran across this on Seth Godin's blog:It's really easy to insist that people read the friggin manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it or f ...
