by Jamie Notter | Aug 22, 2007 | Misc
In my “Lessons Learned” post from a few days ago, I buried a link in one of the paragraphs to a cool Squidoo lens that Seth Godin created called the Encyclopedia of Business Cliches (Sue Pelletier pointed to it as well). It lists all those phrases that you hear that...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 21, 2007 | Culture, Leadership
Virgil Carter posted a great comment on yesterday’s post. There are several interesting points, but let me focus on one:Perhaps the biggest leadership challenge is understanding that non-profit (particularly IMO) leadership is most often in teams, ie, project teams,...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 20, 2007 | Leadership
Not too long ago I wrote about how much I hate competency models, quoting a CEO who pointed out that applying a competency model to a cracked cultural foundation won’t work. The next week I posted a quote from John Kotter about the role of culture in leadership...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 17, 2007 | Leadership
Fellow blogger (and now good friend) Dave Sabol listed his top five takeaways from the ASAE & The Center annual meeting and then tagged me and some others to do the same. I reserve the right to add to these once I’ve had more time to think about them, but here...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 16, 2007 | Leadership
I just posted on the Association Renewal blog a discussion about the repeated mocking of strategic planning that ASAE & The Center have done at their Annual Meetings lately. But I think the funniest part of this meeting was the mocking of committees. The...
