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ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting 07
It’s that time of year again: I am starting to gear up for the ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s Annual Meeting. This year it is in Chicago, August 11 to 14th (T minus one month). I am speaking again this year: the topic is Resolving Conflict in Your...
ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting 07
It’s that time of year again: I am starting to gear up for the ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s Annual Meeting. This year it is in Chicago, August 11 to 14th (T minus one month). I am speaking again this year: the topic is Resolving Conflict in Your...
A Kinder, Gentler Organization?
There’s an article in Workforce Management that discusses the (debatable) positive impact that a “kinder” workforce culture can have on organizational performance. Honestly, the article doesn’t make a particularly convincing case one way or another. There is an...
5 Ways to Have Your Conflict at Senior Team Meetings
1. Tell the TruthIn most meetings there is what we say, and then there’s what we’re thinking in our heads. Usually the latter has much more volume—and often more wisdom—than the former. Now, I still think we should keep our internal editor “on,” but generally speaking...
Senior Team Conflict
Regular readers of my blog should be aware that I’m a big fan of Patrick Lencioni’s writing. Perhaps his most famous book is The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and I especially like it because of the central role conflict plays as a dysfunction. Do note, however, that...
Developing Your Mind
Ben Martin suggests playing chess as a way to develop integrative thinking (becoming more aware of how one move will play out three or four moves later). Good suggestion, Ben! So far, I have come up with two things that have worked for me: Meditation. By sitting still...
Learning to Think
More from Roger Martin about how successful leaders think. He argues that when faced with a problem or challenge, leaders work through four steps: Determining salience Analyzing causality Envisioning the decision architecture Achieving resolution. Conventional...
How Successful Leaders Think
I hate it when the next month’s HBR comes out before I’ve read the good articles in this month’s! So I’m busy reading these days. The one article that is a “can’t miss” in the June edition is by Roger Martin, titled “How Successful Leaders Think.” The short version:...
Generational Conflict
Thanks to Jeff for pointing me to a great blog post by Tammy Erickson about conflict between Generation X and Baby Boomers. I had missed the PBS documentary called “Boomer Century,” that aired in March, but apparently it riled up a few of my fellow Xers. A Gen X...