Choices (Guest Post)
Please read this poem, and when you're done I have some questions for you. Choices As I grew up I started to learn When I was older I learned to imagine I imagined a hero But with it a demon The demon destroyed ...
Monthly Archives: August 2013
I Need Your Help
Or, more accurately, a group of soldiers, wounded in battle, need your help. If you know me, you know that every fall I ride 300 miles from Pittsburgh back home to the DC area. The four-day ride started out as purely rec ...
Best Practices Are Evil (Friday Quote)
That is perhaps my favorite single quote in all of Humanize. It was a one-sentence paragraph in Chapter 3 (p. 34): "There is just one problem. Best practices are evil." To be honest, I think most people skip over the pag ...
New Coaching Program for Stronger Cultures
One of our biggest challenges when it comes to building a strong and powerful culture is the fact that no one has "build a strong and powerful culture" in their job description. And, frankly, if you do have something to ...
Are CEOs “Getting It” Before the Rest of Us?
Get a copy of IBM's recent report on research they did with CEOs (hat tip to SmartBrief for pointing me there). I promise to do some more specific blog posts about it, because it has some important material in there, but ...
Our Biggest Challenge is Decentralization
I just finished reading the new white paper that Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman have put out about "mission-driven volunteers," and it's fabulous. The paper makes a compelling case why the current model for volunteeri ...
Survey Says: Only 5% Have Amazing Cultures
A few months ago I gathered a little bit of data from readers (and webinar attendees) about organizational cultures. My hypothesis was that most organizations didn't do culture very well. Anecdotally, I hear a lot of peo ...
Diversity and Innovation (Friday Quote)
In Monday's post, I reflected about the ASAE Annual Meeting and how some of the sub-communities seemed to be operating in separate circles. My underlying concern in that post is that we're eliminating a critical componen ...
What’s the Value of Reporting Relationships?
Have you ever asked yourself that question? Or have you simply taken it all for granted? Why do we have them in our organizations? What's their purpose? What value do they bring to the organization? Those aren't purel ...
IBM Report on Social Business
IBM is a leader in social business, and I like how their latest report frames the opportunities for companies who want to go in this direction. Based on their research, companies that are doing this are using social busi ...