Social Media and Trust
Please check out the article in this month’s Forum magazine by my good friend, Jeff De Cagna, about social media strategy (and thanks, Jeff, for plugging our book in the article!). I particularly like what he had to say ...
Category: Leadership
Always Done It That Way Top 5: Number 2, Strategy and Planning
Almost to number 1! This is definitely one of my favorites, and it ties into much of the work that Jeff and I do over at Association Renewal in our "Building Strategic Capacity" projects. I actually first put t ...
Margaret Wheatley on Fear
I want to draw your attention to a very powerful piece written by Margaret Wheatley. She is a great leadership author, and I particularly like Leadership and the New Science and Finding Our Way. She spoke at a conference ...
Working With Trust
Great article in HBR this month about trust. Trust is a huge issue for me, and I see it all the time in organizations. It was “half” of an article I co-wrote for the Journal of Association Leadership a couple of years ag ...
Ignoring the Truth
I'm really enjoying Don Moyer's piece on the last page of HBR each month. This month it is about "fitting facts" to fit your view of the world and what works. He paraphrases an idea from Sydney Finkelstein's bo ...
Overachievers
Ben Martin at the CAE Blog recently put out an idea and invited those of us writing the "We've Always Done It That Way" blog to expand upon it. I took the challenge and wrote a post about the tendency in associ ...
Starting versus Stopping
Please check out this great post on the Fast Company blog about the power of starting new behavior, rather than trying to stop old behavior. Here's a snippet:One place this idea can be important is in changing one's mana ...
The Only Acceptable Way
There’s another story in Fast Company this month about two leaders who did a massive turnaround at an advertising company. One of the leaders was shocked to find that the rising stars in the organization not only didn’t ...
Speaking the Truth to Management
Guy Kawasaki pointed to this unbelievably good post from a woman named Pamela Slim who delivers a harsh but important message to senior management in organizations. I love her clarity, her honesty, and the content of the ...
Response to Great Intimidators
I was happy to see a letter to the editor in this month’s Harvard Business Review that challenged the “Great Intimidator” article that I wrote about last month. Walter Carleton gave voice to my frustration with the artic ...