I suppose I don't need ANOTHER reason to dislike strategic plans, but I was reminded of one the other day. I heard a volunteer of an association dutifully reporting to a chapter on how the national organization was makin ...
At a conference the other day, Jeff De Cagna was making a presentation about ways in which the association community needs to think differently. He was covering topics from his ebook, Associations Unorthodox. I liked som ...
I am growing weary of the multitude of posts out there talking about humanizing your brand, but it's not because they're using the word humanize (Maddie and I don't claim to own that term in any way). There are two main ...
Winning the Story Wars: Why Those who Tell--and Live--the Best Stories Will Rule the Future by Jonah Sachs Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Maddie interviewed Jonah Sachs for an NTEN "Meet the Author" webinar, and ...
My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically signif ...
From Ben Horowitz: Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meeti ...
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 ...
I've been around the block when it comes to professional speaking. I've seen the tricks of the trade--opening with a joke, dramatic pauses, giving people the "if you only take ONE thing from this talk..." line. But I wil ...
You've probably already seen this on Maddie's blog. And if not, you can also see it on Charlie Judy's HR Fishbowl site. And now I'm putting it here. What is it? It's a "manifesto" about the future of work. Maddie is the ...
So I know this is going to come as a huge shock to everyone, but Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print. Yes. They're going to stick with their online encyclopedia and a set of educational curricula (which actua ...
