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It is often difficult to find the time for board and staff development. In this space, I will provide a monthly topic via an article or report. You might want to take 15 to 20 minutes to discuss the topic with your board or staff.
At Session on the Future of Libraries, a Sense of Urgency It was billed as just a beginning of a look at the future of libraries, but panelists at an American Library Association (ALA) annual conference session in Anaheim, CA, Saturday sure had a lot to say about how libraries and librarians need to move forward now. The panel was sponsored by the Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) of ALA’s Washington Office, which is taking an 18-month look at the future.
It's Not About the Form! Cumbersome processes, vague standards and complicated or one-size-fits-all performance metrics are just some of the reasons most managers and employees dislike performance reviews. HR leaders need to design appraisal processes so performqnce objetives and priorities are illuminated and organizational goals can be achieved.
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors. Think of famous brands you know: Hallmark cards and Coca-Cola soft drinks, for example. What do these products have in common for consumers? An emotional meaning that taps into thoughts and feelings related to the positive aspects of transformation, according to Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman, authors of
Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal about the Minds of Consumers (HBS Press, 2008). Transformation is just one metaphor that finds expression in products that satisfy deeply held consumer needs and desires. Other metaphors they notice include balance, journey, and connection.
The Big Ten Innovation Killers and How to Keep Your Innovation System Alive and Well By Joyce Wycoff
While it's probably impossible to compute the exact percentage of business initiatives that fail, it is widely acknowledged that most do. After years of research and observation, it is clear that the same reasons for any change initiative failure tend to be the same culprits that make innovation initiatives fail.
2008 Horizon Report
Which six technologies are on the adoption horizon? To find out, read the 2008 Horizon Report, just released by the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.
Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey
Parents say they are gaining control over their children’s exposure to sex and violence in the media, but they remain more broadly concerned about inappropriate content in the media, according to a new national survey of parents released by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report, Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, is a national survey of 1,008 parents of children ages 2-17, along with a series of six focus groups held with parents across the country. The survey explores such issues as media content, media ratings and the V-Chip, media monitoring, educational media, advertising, and the Internet.
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
Social entrepreneurship is innovative, social value-creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government, or business sectors. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value, fundamental to this definition is that the drive for social entrepreneurship is primarily to create social value, rather than personal or shareholder wealth.
Innovating Managment - Reinvnet How You Invent
As customer choice and power predictably and prolifically strengthened - enabled by massive technological change, globalization and hyper competitive forces we need to look at new ways to innovate. The authors have identified three key ways that successful global competitors have adapted their New Product Development processes to “disrupt and win.” Libraires can learn from these business concepts.
Ubercool Discusses Ubertrends
An “Ubertrend” is a major trend – in German “über” means superior or above – that ripples through society leaving many subtrends in its wake. Ubertrends have powerful repercussions on society because they signal a major shift in lifestyle and consumer values, which make them all the more remarkable. See the eight significant Ubertrends that influence our culture today.
Crisis Communications Planning
WIs your organzation prepared to communicate during a crises? BoardSource provides some effective steps for planning for and dealing with a crises.
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
You are the hiring manager with a nasty decision to make. Would you hire the lovable fool or the competent jerk? This Harvard Business Review excerpt suggests that the decision is complicated. By HBS professor Tiziana Casciaro and Duke University’s Miguel Sousa Lobo..
The Teen Media Juggling Act: The Implications of Media Multitasking Among American Youth.
In recent years, the issue of media multitasking has sparked a broad discussion about the potential impact on children and youth and has raised concerns among non-profits about how best to engage young people with social marketing campaigns.
To help advance understanding about the issues that surround media multitasking, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a forum, The Teen Media Juggling Act: The Implications of Media Multitasking Among American Youth.
