In our first two books, Maddie and I were fairly traditional on the dedication page—the first one went out to our respective parents, and the second one was dedicated to our respective kids. So when we put out The Non-Ob ...
I'm always happy to see research that supports what we wrote about in Humanize. The lastest comes from an article in MIT's Sloan Management Review about success Nestle had with a social media campaign. Two researchers in ...
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 ...
"The Truth" has been a focus of mine for well over a year. It started with an article and a presentation for CalSAE in the spring of 2009. At that time I focused on how we need to embrace a more complex underst ...
(Download a PDF of this program)Most organizations suffer because their people don’t tell the truth. This is not about individual integrity. It is about an organization’s internal capacity for allowing truth to be spoke ...
I'm thinking about submitting a proposal to speak at a conference with "Relevance is not enough" as the title. I've heard a lot of people in the last six months or so talk about how relevance is so crucial for associatio ...
Ultimately, your organization is made up of individuals, and whether you've got people issues, inefficient processes, or sticky problems, sometimes the performance of the whole system can be improved as a result of focus ...
Sometimes, the best way to increase capacity is through education. I can help educate the stakeholders in your system about issues that will make a real difference to your organization. I do this through keynote sp ...
My consulting and facilitation projects focus on groups of people and how they get things done. If there are people issues in a team, I can design a consulting project to identify and resolve the issues. If processes are ...
As Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness at Management Solutions Plus, I offer a range of consulting, training, and speaking services to clients both in and out of the association community. If you're reading th ...
