Is Social Business Dead?
Maddie pointed me to this great post by Stowe Boyd on the GigaOm blog, which is in reaction to this great post by Chris Heuer over on Brian Solis' blog. They are both fairly long posts, but here's the gist. Chris Heue ...
Monthly Archives: October 2013
The Four Pillars of the CEO Job
With the exception of Jeff De Cagna's comment and Mark Athitakis' post over at Associations Now, I haven't seen anyone answer my question from last week: What is the job of the CEO? I'd still like to hear what people thi ...
The Fallacy of Individual Leadership (Friday Quote)
To complete my impromptu CEO theme of this week, today's Humanize quote comes from Chapter 3, where we document the failures of modern management. Specifically, we take on 3 "best practices" in the management field: stra ...
The Downside of CEO Experience
I had not intended to create a little CEO theme on the blog, but after Monday's post on the role of the CEO (still looking for CEOs to weigh in on that, by the way), I came across an interesting article in the MIT Sloan ...
What is the Job of the CEO?
That's not a rhetorical question. I'd like some feedback here (i.e., please comment). What, exactly, is the job of the CEO in an organization? I rarely hear it articulated, other than being "the boss" or "in charge." I k ...
Management Is Generating Diminishing Returns
I spoke at the National Association of Corporate Directors' Board Leadership Conference this week. I was given 20 minutes on their "Innovation Stage" to talk about the relationship between social media and management. My ...
Beware of What You Know
Everyone is part of a community that shares a certain worldview. They see things the same way. They "know" certain things are true. It's actually quite reassuring when you gather together and your own view of the world i ...
Sneak Peek at New eBook on Culture (Friday Quote)
I am almost done with my ebook on culture. The working title is A Culture that Works. It's going to be an app-specific release, using the Snippet App, that my friend Ted Coiné told me about. It's about 11,000 words, so i ...
Employee Turnover is a Useless Metric
I know that we want it to be useful, but it isn't. I understand the desire, though. We are constantly told that it costs tons of money to hire a new staff person. That makes turnover a very bad thing, so the metric it ...
Trust, Compassion, and Learning
From an interesting New York Times interview with Michael Gould, the CEO of Bloomingdales, here are some Humanize-related quotes: I believe the business I’m in is giving people an opportunity to grow. At the end of the ...