Time is running out to be a part of the inaugural "21st Century Nonprofit" program that Maddie and I are doing with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. The program begins in early January, and you need to fill out a ...
Do you value learning? Or is it really just the "idea" of learning something new that is valued? This was an interesting question posed by Cameron Norman in a blog post about how "serious" we are about learning. Many of ...
I delivered a session on Humanize earlier this week at an event put on by Goodwill Industries. There is one part part of my talk I have titled "management is failing." For those of you who have read the book, that part o ...
On Tuesday, Maddie and I presented at the Blogworld New York conference, along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. It was fabulous to present with Amy. She told great stories about how NTEN actually puts into practice a lot ...
In an organizational context, the word "vision" will often score you a point in "buzzword bingo." And that's too bad, because like a lot of those words, it has some important meaning behind it. On the other hand, I get w ...
In Humanize, we talk a lot about courage. Courage is one of the four human elements--arguably the hardest one for organizations to master. Fear has long been at the root of organizational dysfunction. We are arguing that ...
So I am back from what might be my 11th or 12th Great Ideas conference (I've been to them all, back to the GWSAE days, but I've lost count), and as usual I had a great time. I enjoyed delivering both the deep dive on Hum ...
Lesson of the week: we are way too focused on answers. I wrote about this years ago (I think that is my only post that includes a Rilke quote; worth reading...). It's deeply ingrained, going back to grade school for mos ...
Mark Shaefer has a nice post about a recent "social media measurement smackdown" he participated in during a social media conference. He was pushing back against a prevailing notion that you can't measure social media. H ...
Check out this great interview with Andrew McAfee of MIT's Center for Digital Business on how to talk to CEOs about social media. He's got some great tips (like why you shouldn't use the word "social"...interesting), but ...
