So if you've been thinking about getting my ebook on Culture, now is the time! Snippet is making Culture that Works the featured Snippet this week, which means you can download it FOR FREE. This does require you to have ...
"So how does that show up here?" I ask this one all the time. People tell me about things that are either good or bad in their workplaces in the course of my consulting, but the descriptions are fairly broad. They are ...
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Crown Business, 2014 I am particularly excited to review this book because I had the privilege to get an advance ...
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 ...
