It’s the Culture, Stupid
Organizational culture is a funny thing. I think most people would agree that it's important. I don't hear people saying, "Nah, it doesn't matter what our organizational culture is; we'll perform well regardless." And if ...
Presentation: Managing the Multi-Generational Workplace
Here are my slides from this morning's presentation to the Architectural Precast Association in San Antonio. For a change, I'm NOT speaking about Humanize, but talking about generational differences in the workplace. ...
Please Take Our Quick Survey
Maddie and I are doing a very quick survey on Social Leadership, and we'd LOVE everyone we know to complete it. Click here to take the 5-minute, 12-question survey. We gathering data on opinions about social media and ...
Fire Two-Thirds of Your Employees
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, ...
Let's Start with Human Resources
In about a month, I will have the privilege of delivering the keynote address at Impact99, a small conference for human resources professionals taking place in Toronto. I'll be speaking about (you guessed it) Humanize, a ...
Book Review: Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus by Michael Roberto Wharton School Publishing, 2005 Although the words are not in the title, this is a book about decision making. As a ...
Different Kinds of Innovation
Here's another bit of content from my client presentation about innovation earlier this week. Yesterday I gave you my simple definition of innovation. After the definition, I talked about three different kinds of innovat ...
What is Innovation?
I facilitated a staff retreat for a department within a larger association yesterday, and they asked me to talk to them about innovation. So instead of borrowing a definition of innovation from one of the many innovation ...
One Month to Go: Please Give
In one month I will be dropped in Pittsburgh, PA with my bike, and I will have to ride home. Three hundred miles over four days. I do this ride almost every year, and part of the ride is raising money for a charity calle ...
Taking "High Performance" Seriously
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points t ...