Shhhh! It’s a Secret

The April issue of Business 2.0 has a great article on the “best kept secrets of the worlds’ best companies. There are some fabulous ideas in there. Here are some of my favorites (plus I posted one on the Association Renewal blog too): W.L. Gore (inventers of Gore-tex...

Shhhh! It's a Secret

The April issue of Business 2.0 has a great article on the “best kept secrets of the worlds’ best companies. There are some fabulous ideas in there. Here are some of my favorites (plus I posted one on the Association Renewal blog too): W.L. Gore (inventers of Gore-tex...

Extreme Facilitation, Part 2

I promised a long time ago that I would post some more on the book that a colleague of mine wrote called “Extreme Facilitation.” The author, Suzanne Ghais, did the same graduate program in conflict resolution that I did and she interned at the Institute for...

Silo Busting

There’s a nice piece (subscription required) in the "intelligence" section of the March Associations Now by Dale Gaddy of the American Chemical Society about how they avoid "silos" in their organization. Unlike most associations, they have...

Leading by Getting Out of the Way

I met with a group of fellow consultants this morning and out of our conversation came an interesting idea:Leaders have more power to keep things from happening than they do to make things happen.I think that is worthy of some reflection.

Shifting Leadership

The new Associations Now magazine has an interesting story about leadership. It covers some research being done by the Center for Creative Leadership (top of the line leadership training outfit in North Carolina). Their research shows that the definition of leadership...
Jamie Notter