Open Up The Discussion
I want to add a few points to last week's post about the complicated versus complex article in Harvard Business review. The article distinguishes between a decision-making context that is complicated, versus one that is ...
Category: Leadership
Why Wait?
I was intrigued by a post on the Signals v. Noise blog today. Someone had asked them a question about how they resolved stalemates during their design process. Jason replied that they rarely have them because for most de ...
Complicated versus Complex
Okay, before November ends I want to point out the must-read article of the month in Harvard Business Review. It is by David Snowden and Mary Boone, titled "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making." The articl ...
Speed of Trust (2) and Generations
This is the second in a series of I don't know how many posts (here's the first) about Stephen M. R. Covey's The Speed of Trust book. So far, I've only read the part about the first "wave" of trust: self-trust. I made th ...
Speed of Trust (1)
I heard Stephen M.R. Covey speak about his book The Speed of Trust at the ASAE Annual Meeting in Chicago last summer. It's taken me forever to get to the book, but I'm starting to review it. Instead of doing one big book ...
Who’s In Charge?
For my association friends (who I assume are members of ASAE & The Center), the November issue of Associations Now should be hitting your mailbox soon, and I've got an article in there titled "Who's In Charge?&q ...
Who's In Charge?
For my association friends (who I assume are members of ASAE & The Center), the November issue of Associations Now should be hitting your mailbox soon, and I've got an article in there titled "Who's In Charge?&q ...
Responding to Disrespect
Jim Stroup, one of my new favorite bloggers, riffed off of yesterday's post about respect. He points out that if we're going to talk about respect in the workplace, we will have to talk about emotions. The feeling of res ...
What Does Respect Look Like?
There is a nice post on the FC Experts blog about respect. It's nothing earth-shattering, and I imagine most would agree:Respect is important; it is a bond that works both ways. Respect the individual and she will respec ...
Distinctive Versus Pissed Off
Virgil quite rightly pointed out in a comment to my post last week that pissing people off just for the sake of pissing people off is not a good idea. I was referring to Kevin Holland's post that was arguing not really i ...