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 ...
The other day I came across yet another article/post declaring that "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" (or lunch, or dinner, or afternoon tea...). I tweeted it out, copying my friend and colleague, Jeff De Cagna, sinc ...
Four years ago, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted a slide deck about their culture. It was originally created as an internal document, but he shared it, and it's now been viewed several million times. The deck (and Netfil ...
Roger Martin has a great article in the current Harvard Business Review about how strategic planning is a lie. I think it's great, of course, because I've hated strategic planning for years now, but I think Martin does o ...
In fact, they haven't in a long, long time. This may come as a shock to many, and some of you may forward me links to cool infographics or other blog posts that dispute my claim, so let me explain. I'm talking abou ...
Guest Post, by Amanda Kaiser We are all inundated with messages about “new marketing.” Experts tell us to try the new marketing strategies because the old are dead. In fact, just about every marketing tactic is changi ...
There is an article in the December 2013 issue of the Atlantic titled, "They're Watching You at Work." It's not so much about privacy or spying, as it is about big data, and how that can be applied, not to sales and mark ...
Yes, it's the annual year in review post! This has been a year of big change. In March I left my job of the last five years and went back out on my own, and this summer I sold my house of the last 17 years and have been ...
