The opening round of ASAE recap blog posts have been a bit of a downer. This does not surprise me given the conversations I was having with friends of colleagues towards the end. For one reason or another, the meeting just wasn't as good as the last several years. Acronym has a central link to [...]
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Permit me to sound like a keynote speaker for a minute… If there's ONE THING you remember from this blog post it's this: (dramatic pause…) the reason your organization sucks, is fear. I write about a lot of things. I talk about truth, conflict, leadership, strategy, etc. And of course I think it's all important, [...]
Continue ReadingWe spend a lot of time wringing our hands over the problems that "others" have in our lives. The Board isn't strategic enough. The boss doesn't understand me. That department over there is not cooperative or competent. My spouse doesn't listen. All of that may be true, but it's still up to you to figure [...]
Continue ReadingThe title of this post, of course, is the reverse of the popular phrase, "I'll believe it when I see it." In other words, until you show me proof, I'm not sure I'm going to believe you. That is fine, and it reflects our cultural bias towards objectivity. As I explained in my post about [...]
Continue ReadingI've written a lot about truth lately–maybe I should also write about "patience," because patience, like truth, it is one of those words that tends to have fairly complex meaning to people–yet everyone defines it differently. This was evidenced by the lengthy comment stream from Joe Rominiecki's post on Acronym where he offered up the [...]
Continue ReadingAt dinner the other night a colleague implied that money is rarely the reason people leave jobs–if they were happier at their current job, they wouldn't be looking around, or at least they would feel more satisfied with their current salary. I agree that money is rarely the primary issue. And frankly it's always complicated [...]
Continue ReadingI'm speaking next week for the Health Care Association of Michigan at their leadership conference. One of the sessions I'm doing is on the "mindsets" of 21st century leadership. Times have changed, and we need to re-examine how we understand and practice leadership in organizations. And awareness of what you want to do differently isn't [...]
Continue ReadingI know some people get a little antsy when you start talking about "love" in the workplace. That's their prerogative. I also know that some of the most brilliant people I know embrace the idea with reckless abandon. I have decided to join forces with those people. Love and passion and deep human engagement are [...]
Continue ReadingA few weeks ago I wrote about the "discourse of complaining." While I am no fan of whining, I like that phrase because it reminds us that complaints actually are serious things–it is a way to identify the things you need less of or more of in order to be more productive, happy, fulfilled, successful, [...]
Continue ReadingMaddie Grant tossed out a bit of a weekend blog-grenade on Saturday with a meme targeted at Generation X titled "Have We Sold Out?" Her challenge to me and others she tagged: So go on, tell me my fellow Xers – Have YOU sold out? Have YOU gone mainstream? Or are we still the guerilla army, [...]
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Jamie is a Vice President at MSP where he leads the consulting division. 
