Most organizations don't talk about their culture too much. We're too busy doing the work, and the culture sits in the background mostly. It's how we do things here, but that doesn't mean we need to talk about it. It is ...
One of the reasons I think so many organizations are stuck is that they have too much of management set on auto-pilot. There are too many things that we do in managing our organizations that are done automatically, witho ...
I speak on the topic of Generational Diversity frequently. In fact, I'm talking to a group of HR folks in Lancaster, PA on Tuesday on the topic. And I enjoy it. I know I'm a bit of a geek about it, but I like talking abo ...
I saw on the HBR blog that Zappos no longer does job postings. They had 30,000 applications for only 300 positions, and it was becoming cumbersome. Instead, they have created a Zappos Insider program where people can sim ...
Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible by Les McKeown Do Book Co, 2014 In Chapter 3 of Humanize, Maddie and I take to task the authors, experts, and even “gurus” on the topic of leaders ...
Jack Dorsey, one of the Twitter Founders and now CEO at Square, sent a quick memo to his employees (that he also posted publicly on Medium) about something that may sound somewhat unimportant: using other people's names ...
As I mentioned in last week's post, Maddie and I spoke last week to some very different audiences--one made up of technology folks from some very large, global companies, and the other made up of mostly association execu ...
Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser Kodak, once a $10 billion dollar company, failed. Just when they needed to innovate the most, they focused on optimization instead. Innovation and optimization are at either ends of the sp ...
Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their mem ...
Just a quick post to remind everyone of a universal lesson: the grass is always greener on the other side. This week I've made presentations to some very different audiences. One group was made up of managers at reall ...
