Teams and Results

I’ve posted before about the topic of giving performance rewards on an individual basis, versus rewarding entire teams or groups. I am not a compensation expert, but I find it interesting that individual-based rewards were shown (in one study, at least) to decrease...

The Myth of Control

I have one more reflection about the Technology Conference from last week. As Reggie pointed out in his post, the buzz was much more about web 2.0 than it was about traditional technology "tools." The keynote speakers and many of the concurrent session...

Your Organization versus a Penguin

I quite by accident stumbled across some notes I took when I read Seth Godin’s 2002 book Survival Is Not Enough today. This quote seems worth repeating:The difference between a penguin and your company is simple: while you both evolved to the point where you...

Conversation about Nonprofit Leadership

Superstar blogger Maddie Grant has posted an interesting introduction to what I hope will be an even more interesting online conversation about leadership. Maddie was not only named association blogger Rookie of the Year for 2007 by BMart, she was also honored by...

The “Duh” of Innovation

David Gammel did a nice post (referring to his conference presentation) about innovation last week, so I’m going to jump on that bandwagon. There is a story about learning organizations in MIT’s Sloan Management Review, and it starts like this:Nearly every...
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