Leadership and Change

Thanks to Kristin Clarke on Acronym for pointing to a good ChangeThis manifesto: People Don’t Hate Change, They Hate How You Are Trying to Change Them. This is a free download, by the way (if you don’t know about ChangeThis, go check them out). I read the...

Conflict Is Inevitable and Good

As I mentioned in the last post, Jim Stroup did a series of posts last week about conflict and leadership. It was based on his review of the work of Mary Parker Follett. I love to see the topic covered, of course, and I think Jim did a good job. Most of his (and...

How Important Is Being Right?

Patti Digh said this today on Twitter: "What would happen if we could give up our attachment to being right?" A powerful question, I think. And it reminded me that I had wanted to post about this topic. Before I went on vacation, I read a great post from Jim...

Vacation Post

I am on vacation at the beach in South Carolina. I haven’t even been able to look at my work email. It’s been great! So I don’t have much substance in me for this post, so instead I’ll just send you over to Lisa Junker’s quick clicks...

Language Can be Tricky

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–it was even featured in an IBM...
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