Check out this awesome presentation about integrating learning and work. This is precisely along the same lines as what Maddie and I talk about in Humanize. The fourth human element we talk about is Courageous. In creati ...
Here's the problem with committees: They exist. I'm only partially joking here. This comes from a comment I left on a post on Eric Lanke's blog (which, by the way, has shifted from the Hourglass blog to simply "Eric La ...
Whenever I get some time to think deeply about things related to the workplace, like how do we make work better, or what is leadership, or what is management, then I end up inescapably coming to the conclusion that is th ...
Thanks to David Patt, whose comment on an Acronym post pointed me to a really good article by Matthew Forti about measurement for nonprofits. The Acronym post was from Scott Briscoe, building off of Joe Rominiecki's noti ...
With all my book writing, it's been hard to keep up with my reading, but I want to point out the excellent issue of Harvard Business Review from April of this year on failure. Not surprisingly, most of the articles about ...
First, I want to point out a cool new feed that Maddie created related to our book, Humanize. Maddie is an amazing curator. She had to put on hold her "link love monthly" posts on SocialFishing because they took too much ...
I am a big fan of Robert Kegan. He is a specialist at Harvard in adult development, and I first started following his work during my graduate program in Organization Development at Georgetown back in 2001. One of the mai ...
As I mentioned last week on the SocialFish blog, social organizations are serious about learning. Not just learning at conferences, but deep organizational learning. While I doubt there are many who would argue against m ...
We love to focus on the beginning and the end. We like to develop our strategic plans, and we like to have our celebrations or evaluation meetings. But we don't often like what happens in the middle. That's where ...
I did some work last week with a volunteer group that was half way through it's year of activity. They were at a point where they wanted to look back at how the experience has been going so they could make adjustment ...
