Transparency is one of the 12 human principles that Maddie and I wrote about in Humanize, and it's one I come back to frequently. Along with decentralization, collaboration, and experimentation, I'd put transparency in m ...
Well, the comparison may not be as flattering as you think. A few years ago, the BMW M5 sedan came with a 500-horsepower, 10-cylinder engine and the best led headlight bulbs. That's practically NASCAR power. I had a f ...
I make this point all the time in my speaking and consulting, yet I don't think I have ever blogged about it directly. We all want trust. We want to be able to trust our colleagues in the workplace, and we certainly want ...
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham Portfolio, 2005 As you can see, this is not a new book--bordering on 10 years old--but it's worth a review, because it has some rea ...
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about "moving toward the conflict." It's an important conflict resolution tip that I talk about in my sessions on conflict. It's almost always easier to deal with conflict when it is ...
Netflix has received a good amount of attention on its culture, driven primarily by the incredible viral success of its slide deck on culture, which CEO Reed Hastings published several years ago. I have a chapter devoted ...
I read about an interesting study in HBR that concludes that noncompete agreements (standard in many employment contracts) can actually stifle performance. In short, knowing that they are restricted in future opportuniti ...
This edition of the Friday quote is not from Humanize--it's from Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web, by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. This book came out in 2010 (a life ...
Last April I posted about what I think is a misguided obsession, sometimes, with proof. Well, I'm starting to get bothered again, and this time it is in the context over the debate about the effectiveness of the "open of ...
I am proud to have made it in the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy business for 2014. This list is generated by an organization called Trust Across America-Trust Around the World, and they've been compiling the li ...
