I already did an overall recap post on the ASAE Annual Meeting over on the Common Thread blog with some big picture reactions to the event. Here I wanted to dig into some of the issues a little more deeply, and there's o ...
Note: when I used to have my own consulting business (cleverly named Notter Consulting), I used to post book reviews periodically to my website (before blogs even!). I've decided to migrate them over to this blog for pos ...
Joe Gerstandt first connected me to the work of Nilofer Merchant, so I started following her on Twitter and reading what she was writing on the Harvard Business Review blog. Then a few weeks ago I finally ordered her boo ...
I can't believe it took me so long to read this book. It is by Henry Mintzberg, who is a well known business professor and author who teaches at McGill University in Montreal. His Ph.D. is from the business school a ...
Strategy is a concept that I love, but at the same time it really bugs me. It's a seemingly simple idea (we all have an intuitive sense of what being strategic is), and we have all talked it to death when it comes to ...
I did some strategy work for an association client last week, and to start off the session, I asked the board members in their introductions to share what volunteering really meant to them. Why did it matter? Why was it ...
Yesterday during the #hackaction Twitter stream, a few of us geeked out and admitted how much we like the writing of Umair Haque. He blogs on the Harvard Business Review site and writes about very interesting things ...
Associations have a soft spot for wanting to make people happy. One of the mistakes we frequently make, since we all have diverse membership bases, is trying to please everyone. Trying to be everything to everyone. This ...
I've written a lot about truth lately--maybe I should also write about "patience," because patience, like truth, it is one of those words that tends to have fairly complex meaning to people--yet everyone de ...
One of my favorite business books of the past few years is Blue Ocean Strategy, by Kim and Mauborgne. The book documents businesses who went in bold new strategic directions in order to create "blue ocean" spaces (as i ...
