Back up your hard drive

I am blogging from my mobile phone at the great ideas conference in Florida. Am I “moblogging” because I am on the beach or at some web 2.0 session? No. I can’t blog from my laptop because the hard drive died on Friday. I am reinstalling software and...

Indexed

I absolutely love a blog that Mickie Rops pointed to, called “Indexed.” The posts are simply sketches on the back of 3×5 index cards. They convey interesting points in the form of graphs and diagrams (without, as the blog says, actually having to do the math). I...

Stop Doing List

I finally got around to reading the “regular” part of Associations Now. They put most of the good stuff, in my opinion, in the Volunteer Leadership supplement. I liked the cover story about paradoxes (my favorite quote is here on the Always Done It That Way blog)....

Rare Leadership Competencies

I posted on the Association Renewal blog about an HBR article about “Act II Leadership” because it’s about making change BEFORE things have gone completely downhill, a critical capacity in strategy making that too many organizations don’t have. But I failed to capture...

Change Leadership

As a follow up to last week’s post about leadership and culture, I’ll point to yet another article in this month’s HBR (this month’s issue is certainly a keeper!). It’s actually a “best of” article that was originally published in 1995 by John Kotter on “why...
Jamie Notter