I was reading an HBR blog post from Eric Hellweg about a panel he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It was focused on the future of education. This isn't particularly my field, so I almost skipped it, but he ...
Edelman's annual Trust survey is out. Some of the numbers actually went up this year, but as in previous years, they are basically describing a trust "crisis." The numbers vary by country and by industry, but there's eno ...
This year I'm launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I'm launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I'm call ...
Late last fall, Maddie and I released the results of a survey we did with 500 professionals about the link between social media and leadership. We think there are some interesting data points in there that can help organ ...
Winning the Story Wars: Why Those who Tell--and Live--the Best Stories Will Rule the Future by Jonah Sachs Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Maddie interviewed Jonah Sachs for an NTEN "Meet the Author" webinar, and ...
My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically signif ...
People have been complaining about "silos" in organizations for years and years. In solving one problem (putting people together in a department in order to deepen expertise and be efficient), we created some new ones (t ...
I searched on my blog for the post I wrote about the "hard work of clarity." I thought it would be on the first page or two of results because it must have been recently. Turns out it was from 2009, after the session th ...
Time once again for my annual year in review post. This has been a year focused heavily on the Humanize book. We're very pleased to have sold nearly 4,000 copies in the first year of the book, and we look forward to more ...
