by Jamie Notter | Sep 18, 2007 | Books and Reading, Conflict
My reflections about generations yesterday reminded me, as I mentioned, of a book by Adam Kahane called Solving Tough Problems. I’m really glad I re-opened the book. I read it a while ago, but never did a review on my web site. That is now corrected. You can see...
by Jamie Notter | Sep 11, 2007 | Announcements, Books and Reading
Last month we sold our 1,000th copy of We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We Must Change. When we wrote the book, we had absolutely no target for sales. Of course the more people that buy it the better, but we mostly wanted to get the...
by Jamie Notter | Aug 10, 2007 | Books and Reading
The Tom Peters blog pointed me to a post listing THE top 5 books executives should read. I’ve got three down, two to go.
by Jamie Notter | Jul 31, 2007 | Books and Reading, Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
In Associations Now, Newton Holt interviews Stephen M.R. Covey (son of the other Stephen Covey), who has a book out about trust in the business world. I particularly liked his response to Newton’s question about how to talk about trust to utilitarian people who see...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 17, 2007 | Books and Reading
First, in case you didn’t see, Lisa Junker (of ASAE & The Center and the Acronym blog) posted a nice comment about Bob Sutton’s book. She rightly points out that one of the best parts of his book is the way he owns up to his own bad behavior and challenges all...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 17, 2007 | Books and Reading
We will see if the email subscribers actually get this post, given the title, but hey, it is actually the title of a good book I read lately. The subtitle is much more palatable: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn’t. It was written by Robert...
