In Monday's post I talked about Rita Gunther McGrath's HBR article on Transient Advantage. She suggests that in today's fast-paced, ever-changing world, companies should not be looking for a sustained competitive advanta ...
Next week I am speaking at an Australian Association Conference. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean I'll be in Australia (though for the record, I am still trying to make that happen sometime in the next year!). I'll be sp ...
Go out and find a copy of the June Harvard Business Review Magazine (sorry, I know it's old news now, but there must be some out there!). The cover spotlight is on "Strategy for Turbulent Times" and the first article in ...
I'm on vacation this week at the beach. So I reserve the right not to publish any more blog posts (this one was pre-scheduled, of course). Or maybe I'll post some non-traditional stuff, who knows? But I'm planning to rel ...
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein's work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are take ...
Here's a great article from Business Insider that exposes an inconvenient truth: we have no idea what we're doing when we hire people. As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt ...
People with disabilities face many barriers to good health. Studies mentioned in this official site shows that individuals with disabilities are more likely than people without disabilities to report: Having poorer ...
That's a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review: anti-fragile. There's a whole book about it, apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness ...
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom's awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says "we trust you. Use your best judgment." You don't h ...
Give yourself a little bit of time (it's a long article), but definitely read this fabulous article about the "bossless office" written by Matt Shaer for New York Magazine. He is basically documenting the "decentralizat ...
