There is a portion of my digital life that was lost with my hard drive crash in late January. It was a small portion, but each day I discover things that have fallen through the cracks or been looked over as I dealt with ...

Okay, this post is a bit outside the normal domain of this blog. It’s technically about “supply chain management,” which, as you might imagine, is not really the focus of my work or attention. But a brief article in HBR ...

There is an interesting conversation going on across the “blogoclump” (the collection of bloggers who blog about associations) about why association executives don’t read us! Jeff started the recent conversation with thi ...

I absolutely love a blog that Mickie Rops pointed to, called “Indexed.” The posts are simply sketches on the back of 3x5 index cards. They convey interesting points in the form of graphs and diagrams (without, as the blo ...

One person cannot ruin a good company.  It takes a strong management team to do that. Stepan Pachikov, who sold a successful virtual reality company to Silicon Graphics who, apparently, then ran it into the ground.A ...

Okay, I'm back from the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting in Boston. I did not have the time or energy to post while I was there, and I really only went to one baseball game, I swear. I was pleased with the conflict s ...

Okay, I'm supposed to be working hard networking, learning, and connecting to my association community colleagues at the ASAE conference, right? Well, I also need time to have fun, don't I? I arrived in Boston yesterday, ...

Sorry for this relatively substanceless post, but I need to test out the new software that I downloaded for my new Treo smartphone. It allows me to make posts (like this one) from my phone instead of my computer. This ma ...