This idea is drawn from Ed Schein's work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are take ...
Here's a great article from Business Insider that exposes an inconvenient truth: we have no idea what we're doing when we hire people. As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt ...
People with disabilities face many barriers to good health. Studies mentioned in this official site shows that individuals with disabilities are more likely than people without disabilities to report: Having poorer ...
That's a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review: anti-fragile. There's a whole book about it, apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness ...
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom's awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says "we trust you. Use your best judgment." You don't h ...
Give yourself a little bit of time (it's a long article), but definitely read this fabulous article about the "bossless office" written by Matt Shaer for New York Magazine. He is basically documenting the "decentralizat ...
I urge everyone to watch this video of General David Morrison of the Australian Army. It's only 3 minutes, and in the video he makes crystal clear his views about sexual harassment in the Australian Army. Apparently ther ...
I'm starting a new feature of the blog: the Friday Quote. I'm going to pick a short quote from Humanize or a book that I am reading that connects to what I have been working on that week, and share it with the hopes of s ...
Below are the slides from a keynote I did last week. I pulled out five lessons from the Humanize book that I think are most relevant to creating a stronger culture: Decentralization Transparency Systems Thinking ...
The past two days I've been immersed in graduations. My oldest daughter graduated high school, and my youngest daughter graduated middle school. For each of them, they've been at their particular schools for quite a few ...
