Culture is Social

I just posted on the Association Renewal Blog about Ram Charan’s article in HBR about a big culture change at Home Depot. The AR post is more about the "change" part (what got you there won’t get you where you’re going). But there’s...

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars

There are more good business books out there than I have time to read. As I hear about them, I usually put them on that mental "I really should read that" list. Some of those make it to my house, but fewer of them actually get read. But with Patrick...

Red Flags

Here’s a tidbit from the Winter 06 issue of the Journal of Association Leadership. There’s an article on “Living Strategy,” an interesting alternative to strategic planning that the American Society for Quality has used. I heard the authors present on Living Strategy...

Extreme Facilitation, Part 2

I promised a long time ago that I would post some more on the book that a colleague of mine wrote called “Extreme Facilitation.” The author, Suzanne Ghais, did the same graduate program in conflict resolution that I did and she interned at the Institute for...

Silo Busting

There’s a nice piece (subscription required) in the "intelligence" section of the March Associations Now by Dale Gaddy of the American Chemical Society about how they avoid "silos" in their organization. Unlike most associations, they have...
Jamie Notter