On the Road
I am off to Chicago and Antwerp this week. On Tuesday morning, I'll be doing the opening keynote at the annual meeting of IHRIM, the association for the Human Resource Information Management industry. The title of my ta ...
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Strategy and Context
Sohrab Vossoughi wrote a great post on HBR about Sony and how its successful strategy in the 1980s ended up being unique to that context. In other words, a winning strategy is context specific, thus it needs to evolve an ...
Change is Not Hard
I have officially grown tired of the excuse that change is hard. Change is not hard. And it's not change that people resist in organizations. As long as we think that, we'll never get better. Here's what people resist: ...
A Different Kind of Vision
In an organizational context, the word "vision" will often score you a point in "buzzword bingo." And that's too bad, because like a lot of those words, it has some important meaning behind it. On the other hand, I get w ...
Using Metrics to Clarify
I have a love/hate relationship with measurement. On one level, I can be frustrated by people who demand we measure everything, as if numbers proved the "truth." Many of the things that are the very most important in lif ...
The Feeling of Failure
In Humanize, we talk a lot about courage. Courage is one of the four human elements--arguably the hardest one for organizations to master. Fear has long been at the root of organizational dysfunction. We are arguing that ...
Race and Politics
I was having a good week this week. After some busy travel weeks, I was back in the office getting stuff done. Writing some good blog posts. Facilitating conversations. Mapping out future crazy travel weeks. The usual. T ...
Getting Serious About Collaboration
Collaboration is a bit of a buzzword these days. It is often that magic result we seek as we adopt a new technology solution or try to get employees to play nicely together in the sandbox. It's a feel-good word. We all l ...
Bringing Innovation to Life
That's the title from a panel session I helped deliver at the Great Ideas Conference last week. The description from the brochure: People make innovation happen. Ok, but how do they do it? Join us to learn tips and techn ...