Archive for Ann Oliveri
Evoking Excellence in Others
Highly collaborative, ad hoc teams are transforming the way we work. So it’s not too surprising that command-and-control managers are being replaced by leaders who function more like coaches, running practices, tuning up performance. Rather than looking to industrial-era management…
March 11th, 2010 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Rework
A “minimalist manifesto,” Rework reveals the operating principles of 37Signals, the wildly successful perpetrators of Basecamp, Campfire, and other truly useful distributed work tools for the Fortune 5,000,000. You can download an excerpt at 37signals.com/rework/ that include some of my…
March 9th, 2010 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Just-In-Time Insights
Seth Godin is like comfort food. Our view of what marketing is, and is not, is in synch, so just when I think I have lost my mind, a Seth Godin blog post or its equivalent, a chapter in his…
March 6th, 2010 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Associations @ 2030
Twenty years ago, I was working for the American Institute of Architects and was about to be laid off, the first wave of lay offs that would ultimately cut staff numbers in half. That era’s creative destruction of capital markets,…
January 10th, 2010 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Association Leadership: Oxymoron or Redundancy?
Years ago, military intelligence was the phrase I trotted out as my favorite oxymoron, but maybe it should be one much closer to home: association leadership. After all, associations document the minimum standard of practice and benchmark reasonable expectations of…
November 8th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Problem Definition
What does the Journal of Association Leadership need to be? That was the question of yesterday’s retreat for a dozen editorial advisory board members and knowledge staff. Heroically facilitated by Dan Martinage, we finally sorted out the issues that we…
October 27th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Night at the Opera
In a cross between the Marx Brothers and Les Cages Aux Folles, the Washington Opera Company is staging Verdi’s farce, Falstaff, at the Kennedy Center through the end of the month–perfect for Halloween with its goblins and witches and faeries….
October 13th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Write On
When asked about her writing process for a video interview, a nine-year old girl carefully considers her answer and finally says: “I like to write with a red pen.” Ah, there’s nothing like a great pen to inspire a writer….
October 12th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Crowd Sourcing the Future of Associations
Finally, someone is using social media to reform the failed business model of a beloved membership organization, the National Geogrphic Society. Alan Mairson, free-lance journalist and former staffer at NGS, is on a crusade to save National Geographic and, in…
October 9th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Scopes Trial Redux
Apple dropped its membership in the U.S. Chamber this week not just because of a difference of opinion on climate change, but also due to the Chamber’s hyperbolic boasting. According to Politco, “A large part of the campaign against Chamber…
October 8th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Hedgehog in Paris
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery is ideal reading over a grand creme in Paris. I had been meaning to read it, but am glad I put it off until the trip. After pouring over Michelin guides and…
October 5th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
France. It’s Good.
Enlightenment architect Claude-Nicholas Ledoux’s Saline Royale was one of the highlights of our two-week, 2,000 mile drive through France last month. The big discovery of the trip for me, though, was why terroir is such a definitive force, not just…
October 4th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
Cringe Factor
Tuesday, the Daily Show satirized the protectors of corporations from big government–trade associations–and their fake populist ad campaigns featuring average Americans as spokesmodels. The punchline came when the coal lobby’s “Faces of Coal” campaign was outed for its use of…
October 1st, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
IDEO Puts the “I” in Community
Enabling the individual enables the community, writes IDEO’s Patrice Martin in the current issue of Patterns. Powerful communities emerge when individuals are encouraged to take ownership and find their voices. “Funny how an emphasis on “I” leads to a more…
August 15th, 2009 | Ann Oliveri | Comments | Continued
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