I had an interesting conversation with a colleague who is my age (42) but works with a group of 25-year-olds. It provided much food for thought about generational diversity.She had brought in a financial expert to do a p ...

This was a comment in the most recent Case Study in Associations Now about a senior manager who is dealing with a long-time employee who isn't performing well (but no one is telling her that). And the CEO is turning ...

Here's another quote from the Harvard Business Review article about Pixar. Last week I wrote about the difference between communicating and deciding. Today it's an interesting quote about postmortems. I am a big ...

I stumbled across a few things this week that illuminate the importance of language. The first was a funny website put up by Kivi Leroux Miller on "Nonprofit Buzzword Bingo." Buzzword Bingo has been around for a while ...

Seth Godin wrote a blog post about why blogging helps you become a better writer. Here's one point that particularly caught my attention:4. It's okay if you leave. Bloggers aren't afraid to include links or distractions ...

Seth Godin wrote a blog post about why blogging helps you become a better writer. Here's one point that particularly caught my attention:4. It's okay if you leave. Bloggers aren't afraid to include links or distractions ...

There is a one-page interview with poet David Whyte in HBR in May. Whyte uses poetry to address leadership and business issues in corporation. He said he was initially invited to do corporate work after giving a talk abo ...

In case you were wondering, no, Peter Senge does not now speak in a strange collection of undecipherable symbols. That was me trying to post from my mobile phone while I was at a conference hearing Senge speak. Something ...

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Here’s some more detail from that California Management Review article about “hot” and “cool” conflict. As I said before, I love it when researchers are able to document the things I have been dealing with in my work. I ...