Plays Well With Others

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,...

Vanilla 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...

Top Five Lessons Learned from the Annual Meeting

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...

Set Up to Fail

I just posted over on the Always Done It That Way blog about an HBR article that talks about the “middle term” time horizon. I posted over there, because it ties in directly with the post from the book that I wrote about Middle Level Thinking (which happened to be my...
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