What Chains Do You Revere?
My friend Olivier Blanchard posted this quote on Facebook the other day: That's a beautiful quote. And in case you're wondering, the real application of this quote is not in you feeling superior to all those fools who ...
Humanize Slides from Goodwill Keynote
If you want to see the slides from today's keynote for Goodwill Industries, they are embedded below. This was a fun talk because I was asked to deliver it in a "TED style" with only 20 minutes max to deliver the message. ...
The Insanity of Strategic Planning
In a keynote session last week about Humanize, I once again challenged the effectiveness of strategic planning. In the book, strategic planning is one of three traditional management "best practices" that we shine a crit ...
Operation Second Chance
Every fall, I do a 300-mile bike ride from Pittsburgh back home to Gaithersburg, MD. Well, okay, I didn't do it last year, since it was around book launch time, but I had done it the previous nine years, and I'm doing it ...
Creating More Human Organizations
Thanks to everyone at the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE) for having me as their morning keynote speaker today. Below are the slides from that presentation if you're interested. Creati ...
Don't Shield Employees from Tension
This is one of my notes from the MIX Mashup event. It was something that Terri Kelly, the CEO of W.L. Gore and Associates said. Well, technically she said "associates" and not employees. At Gore, there are only two title ...
Moneyball and Management Innovation
I'm now a huge fan of the movie Moneyball. I don't think it's cinematic genius necessarily, but it crystallizes some ideas for me that are central to my work, and central to what we're saying in Humanize. And it does it ...
We Are Not Angry Enough (MIX Mashup Notes)
That was the first line in my notebook from the MIX Mashup event I attended in San Francisco a month ago. We're not angry enough. The notebook has been sitting in my bag for a month. I never did a formal recap post. I di ...
Humanize Presentation at #intchg12
Thanks everyone who came out to the AICPA Interchange conference early for my pre-conference session on "Succeeding in the 21st Century Association." The slides are embedded below (and are available on slideshare). I al ...
The Results of Management Innovation
In a recent post I challenged everyone to consider innovating management, rather than just our products, services, or business models. We have come to expect innovation in our world in many areas, yet we are content to c ...