Managing Online Conflict

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, there was a bit of a blowup in one of the online communities to which I belong. The American Society of Association Executives has an active private online community, and the other day, one of the members posted a link to a...

Diversity for White People

I’ve been witness to a couple of interesting conversations about diversity within the association community in the last week. First, in an online community, one member shared a Huffington Post article about “angry white men,” for discussion, and...

Thinking Like A Business Is Not Optional

Last week I attended the first, annual Association Chief Executives Symposium, put on by Shira Harrington and Jeff De Cagna. I really enjoyed the day-long conversation among association CEOs and senior staff (Jeff and Shira invited me as one of the facilitators). At...

Recognizing that You Suck

How often does a CEO write a public blog post admitting that he sucks? That’s what Greg Hoy, CEO of Happy Cog, did over on Medium recently. More specifically, he admitted that he had been avoiding his own performance review for some time at his organization, and...
Jamie Notter