The Hero is You
The very first words in our book Humanize are from the character Morpheus, in the movie The Matrix: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony ...
Book Review: Social Media ROI
Social Media ROI: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization by Olivier Blanchard Thankfully, the debate about whether or not social media is a “fad” is fading away, so now we can really f ...
Good Advice Isn't Easy
Maddie and I did a webinar yesterday along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. We love using NTEN as a case study of a human organization, and during the conversation, Amy was talking about NTEN's values, including their "we ...
Webinar: How to Humanize Your Nonprofit
I was going to blog about next week's FREE Avectra webinar on how to Humanize your nonprofit (featuring not only me and Maddie, but also Amy Sample Ward from one of our favorite, and most human, organizations: NTEN)... ...
Why Management Doesn’t Change
Today I noticed a post on HBR from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. He said that there was one HBR article--from 12 years ago no less--that still guides Google as they grow and develop today. Obviously, this is an articl ...
Book Review: Solving Tough Problems
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities by Adam Kahane (Berrett-Keohler, 2004) Adam Kahane was one of several incredibly smart and now famous people who worked for Royal ...
What Leadership Looks Like in Human Organizations
In nearly every presentation I give about Humanize, a question comes up about whether or not these changes I'm talking about need to start from the top. I certainly see the value of a "sponsor" at the executive level, bu ...
Change Trumps Technology
Read this blog post by Tonia Ries. She cites a study by Capgemini Consulting and MIT that examines the relative profitability and performance of organizations based on two dimensions: "digital intensity," and "transforma ...
Rigorous Decision Making
Google has a cool online publication called Think Quarterly. The current issue is about Open, which obviously gets my attention, given that one of the four human elements we identify in Humanize is Open. Senior Google ex ...
The New Face of Leadership
Fast Company Magazine, believe it or not, has been around for almost 20 years. It was founded in 1995 by Bill Taylor and Alan Webber (who were previously editors at Harvard Business Review). I remember when I was doing m ...