My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically signif ...
People have been complaining about "silos" in organizations for years and years. In solving one problem (putting people together in a department in order to deepen expertise and be efficient), we created some new ones (t ...
I searched on my blog for the post I wrote about the "hard work of clarity." I thought it would be on the first page or two of results because it must have been recently. Turns out it was from 2009, after the session th ...
Time once again for my annual year in review post. This has been a year focused heavily on the Humanize book. We're very pleased to have sold nearly 4,000 copies in the first year of the book, and we look forward to more ...
Two stories on the internet caught my attention this week. The first was a blog post from Mark Schaefer on the business case for buying facebook likes. Yes, that's the business case FOR buying them. His argument seems to ...
Time is running out to be a part of the inaugural "21st Century Nonprofit" program that Maddie and I are doing with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. The program begins in early January, and you need to fill out a ...
I read in Forbes about a new list out of the best places to work, and this one is from Glassdoor. Unlike some of the other lists, where the companies actually apply to be on the list, this one is a big survey of employee ...
Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way--still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews--like th ...
Valve is a computer software company that's on my list to research more, because it definitely exhibits "humanize" tendencies. It's received a lot of attention for its new employee handbook, which is not the traditional, ...
The headline in the email from smartbrief captured my attention: 6 Reasons that Women Make Great Leaders Congratulations to marketer who wrote that subject line! It got me to open the email and click on the article. Th ...
