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Great Ideas Notebook
More of my notes from Great Ideas 07: Dan Heath: If you want it to stick, then SAY SOMETHING. It takes courage to say something so clearly that it can be refuted or even proven wrong. Identity is more powerful than narrow self-interest. Ned Hallowell: We are...
Ideas that Stick Can Also Stress
I had a super time at the Great Ideas conference, although the notes in my learning journal are a little sparse this year. That is partially because I did have to skip a session or two in order to continue re-creating my slides for my presentation, after my hard drive...
Great Ideas, Excellent Adventure?
I returned yesterday from ASAE & The Center’s Great Ideas Conference. I love this conference, and I am probably one of the few that has been to every single one of them, dating back to the GWSAE events in DC. As most of the “blogoclump” is now aware, there was an...
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 haven't quite set...
Indexed
I absolutely love a blog that Mickie Rops pointed to, called “Indexed.” The posts are simply sketches on the back of 3x5 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 love...
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...
Interests versus Positions
Ann Oliveri has a nice post about the resurgence of whooping cranes that also touches on one of the most important points I make when I do presentations or training in conflict resolution. She describes a “win-win” solution in Nebraska where a power plant gets built...