How often does a CEO write a public blog post admitting that he sucks? That's what Greg Hoy, CEO of Happy Cog, did over on Medium recently. More specifically, he admitted that he had been avoiding his own performance rev ...
Maddie pointed me to this great post by Stowe Boyd on the GigaOm blog, which is in reaction to this great post by Chris Heuer over on Brian Solis' blog. They are both fairly long posts, but here's the gist. Chris Heue ...
With the exception of Jeff De Cagna's comment and Mark Athitakis' post over at Associations Now, I haven't seen anyone answer my question from last week: What is the job of the CEO? I'd still like to hear what people thi ...
To complete my impromptu CEO theme of this week, today's Humanize quote comes from Chapter 3, where we document the failures of modern management. Specifically, we take on 3 "best practices" in the management field: stra ...
I had not intended to create a little CEO theme on the blog, but after Monday's post on the role of the CEO (still looking for CEOs to weigh in on that, by the way), I came across an interesting article in the MIT Sloan ...
That's not a rhetorical question. I'd like some feedback here (i.e., please comment). What, exactly, is the job of the CEO in an organization? I rarely hear it articulated, other than being "the boss" or "in charge." I k ...
I spoke at the National Association of Corporate Directors' Board Leadership Conference this week. I was given 20 minutes on their "Innovation Stage" to talk about the relationship between social media and management. My ...
Everyone is part of a community that shares a certain worldview. They see things the same way. They "know" certain things are true. It's actually quite reassuring when you gather together and your own view of the world i ...
I am almost done with my ebook on culture. The working title is A Culture that Works. It's going to be an app-specific release, using the Snippet App, that my friend Ted Coiné told me about. It's about 11,000 words, so i ...
I know that we want it to be useful, but it isn't. I understand the desire, though. We are constantly told that it costs tons of money to hire a new staff person. That makes turnover a very bad thing, so the metric it ...
