Remember the early days of Twitter, when nobody understood it? I was a fairly early adopter, and I remember that the number-one complaint I would hear from people who didn't understand Twitter was that they really didn't ...
Maddie and I had the great privilege of presenting today at ASAE's Technology Conference with Tom Hood, the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs. Tom's a CEO who has fully embraced social media, and is super smart to ...
Last week I attended the first, annual Association Chief Executives Symposium, put on by Shira Harrington and Jeff De Cagna. I really enjoyed the day-long conversation among association CEOs and senior staff (Jeff and Sh ...
How often does a CEO write a public blog post admitting that he sucks? That's what Greg Hoy, CEO of Happy Cog, did over on Medium recently. More specifically, he admitted that he had been avoiding his own performance rev ...
With the exception of Jeff De Cagna's comment and Mark Athitakis' post over at Associations Now, I haven't seen anyone answer my question from last week: What is the job of the CEO? I'd still like to hear what people thi ...
To complete my impromptu CEO theme of this week, today's Humanize quote comes from Chapter 3, where we document the failures of modern management. Specifically, we take on 3 "best practices" in the management field: stra ...
I had not intended to create a little CEO theme on the blog, but after Monday's post on the role of the CEO (still looking for CEOs to weigh in on that, by the way), I came across an interesting article in the MIT Sloan ...
That's not a rhetorical question. I'd like some feedback here (i.e., please comment). What, exactly, is the job of the CEO in an organization? I rarely hear it articulated, other than being "the boss" or "in charge." I k ...
I spoke at the National Association of Corporate Directors' Board Leadership Conference this week. I was given 20 minutes on their "Innovation Stage" to talk about the relationship between social media and management. My ...
I know that we want it to be useful, but it isn't. I understand the desire, though. We are constantly told that it costs tons of money to hire a new staff person. That makes turnover a very bad thing, so the metric it ...
