12 Gifts for Cast-Short, Recession-Weary Work Places from Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a quick, solution-filled, fun piece that puts people before gifts.

Prompted us at Mariner to brainstorm for a few others ... 

Kim Fernandez does a great job as covering the positives, negatives and questions related to chapter-national relationship in Chapter/National Relations: Pulling Together or Pulling Apart (Associations Now, October 2008). I should certainly say that since she’s quoted me, but that’s not my motivation. What is my motivation is to keep the dialog about components in the “open space.”