Trust as Foundation
Trust gets mentioned a lot in organizations. I agree it is a terribly important thing, but it is often put up too high on a pedestal. You hear things like:It’s important that we trust each other here.I want you to know t ...
Category: Leadership
Shhhh! It’s a Secret
The April issue of Business 2.0 has a great article on the “best kept secrets of the worlds’ best companies. There are some fabulous ideas in there. Here are some of my favorites (plus I posted one on the Association Ren ...
Shhhh! It's a Secret
The April issue of Business 2.0 has a great article on the “best kept secrets of the worlds’ best companies. There are some fabulous ideas in there. Here are some of my favorites (plus I posted one on the Association Ren ...
Extreme Facilitation, Part 2
I promised a long time ago that I would post some more on the book that a colleague of mine wrote called “Extreme Facilitation.” The author, Suzanne Ghais, did the same graduate program in conflict resolution that I did ...
Silo Busting
There's a nice piece (subscription required) in the "intelligence" section of the March Associations Now by Dale Gaddy of the American Chemical Society about how they avoid "silos" in their organizati ...
Leading by Getting Out of the Way
I met with a group of fellow consultants this morning and out of our conversation came an interesting idea:Leaders have more power to keep things from happening than they do to make things happen.I think that is worthy o ...
Shifting Leadership
The new Associations Now magazine has an interesting story about leadership. It covers some research being done by the Center for Creative Leadership (top of the line leadership training outfit in North Carolina). Their ...
Great Intimidator?
Believe it or not, I found an article in Harvard Business Review that I really hate. It’s not that I have liked every article in there—the ones on supply chains really bore me. Others make points that I don’t think are t ...
More Drucker Quotes
Here’s another great quote I came across in Peter Drucker’s Nonprofit Management book:Decisions always involve risk taking. And effective decisions take a lot of time and thought. For this reason, one doesn’t make unnece ...
Executive Foresight
I participated this evening in what started out originally as ASAE's "Leadership Book Club." The name of the program is now "Executive Foresight" and it no longer rests only on one book, rather it foc ...