Myth of Control…Out of Control!
Okay, I can't keep up with the comments on the "Myth of Control" post. Thanks to everyone for the conversation! And thanks to Jeff, Maddie, and Lisa for posting about it on your own blogs. The dialogue in the c ...
Category: Leadership
Teams and Results
I’ve posted before about the topic of giving performance rewards on an individual basis, versus rewarding entire teams or groups. I am not a compensation expert, but I find it interesting that individual-based rewards we ...
The Myth of Control
I have one more reflection about the Technology Conference from last week. As Reggie pointed out in his post, the buzz was much more about web 2.0 than it was about traditional technology "tools." The keynote s ...
Your Organization versus a Penguin
I quite by accident stumbled across some notes I took when I read Seth Godin's 2002 book Survival Is Not Enough today. This quote seems worth repeating:The difference between a penguin and your company is simple: while y ...
Conversation about Nonprofit Leadership
Superstar blogger Maddie Grant has posted an interesting introduction to what I hope will be an even more interesting online conversation about leadership. Maddie was not only named association blogger Rookie of the Year ...
Speed of Trust (3): Behaviors and Counterfeits
Okay, I have done two posts about Covey's Speed of Trust book (here and here). Covey has five "waves" of trust. The first is self trust and focuses on what YOU need to do to be trustworthy and trust others. Th ...
The “Duh” of Innovation
David Gammel did a nice post (referring to his conference presentation) about innovation last week, so I'm going to jump on that bandwagon. There is a story about learning organizations in MIT's Sloan Management Review, ...
The "Duh" of Innovation
David Gammel did a nice post (referring to his conference presentation) about innovation last week, so I'm going to jump on that bandwagon. There is a story about learning organizations in MIT's Sloan Management Review, ...
Create Your Own Competition
My favorite "great idea" that emerged from last week's Great Ideas Conference, of course, did not come from one of the scheduled sessions. It was an informatil conversation during breakfast. One of the people a ...
Resistance, Learning, and Emotional Intelligence
I had some interesting experiences at last week's Great Ideas Conference in Orlando, Florida, so I plan on a couple of posts to talk about what I learned. At the beginning of the conference, I noticed that several of the ...