2014 Year End
I wasn't expecting 2014 to be a real transition year (I thought that's what I had last year, actually, when I went back out on my own), but as soon as Maddie and I decided to launch a joint consulting firm together (Cult ...
Monthly Archives: December 2014
We Need Hierarchy
One of my idols is Gary Hamel, and he declared this year that bureaucracy must die. I'm sure he'll get a lot of support for that sentiment, since we have been hating bureaucracy since we invented the word (it has ALWAYS ...
The Power of Stickiness
In every blog related to business or leadership, you're going to find buzzwords, and mine is no exception. Culture, engagement, ownership--and even the very basics of leadership, change, and management--are all words tha ...
Leadership 101: Confront What Is
There is a down side to this wonderful human brain that we all have in our heads, and that is that sometimes we can spend too much of our time living up there in our heads, and not down here in reality. This is particula ...
Tell Everyone Why We Do It This Way
All groups have norms--expectations about how the group does things. For formalized teams or Boards or Committees, once the group has been in existence for a while, the group norms become unspoken. Everyone knows them or ...