You've probably heard me say this before, but Maddie and I are activists. While we love to write and think big thoughts, we are ultimately not satisfied until what we are doing actually helps people to do things differen ...
Next week, Maddie and I are offering a FREE webinar that covers the "Open" chapter of Humanize. It is the first in a four-part series (the other three will cover Trustworthy, Generative, and Courageous). We'll give you s ...
In Belgium a couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out with Olivier Blanchard. He is ridiculously smart, and a fellow Que author--his book is called Social Media ROI. It is actually quite a nice complement to ...
That's the response I get from the people who are very passionate about strategic planning. In case you don't know me, I think strategic planning is horrible. In Humanize, we devote nearly 8 full pages to why strategic p ...
You've probably already seen this on Maddie's blog. And if not, you can also see it on Charlie Judy's HR Fishbowl site. And now I'm putting it here. What is it? It's a "manifesto" about the future of work. Maddie is the ...
I'm back from my Chicago/Belgium trip, and I had a GREAT time. I am posting my slides, below from the two presentations I did in Belgium at the Fusion Marketing Experience conference (which together cover all that I spok ...
I am off to Chicago and Antwerp this week. On Tuesday morning, I'll be doing the opening keynote at the annual meeting of IHRIM, the association for the Human Resource Information Management industry. The title of my ta ...
Sohrab Vossoughi wrote a great post on HBR about Sony and how its successful strategy in the 1980s ended up being unique to that context. In other words, a winning strategy is context specific, thus it needs to evolve an ...
I have officially grown tired of the excuse that change is hard. Change is not hard. And it's not change that people resist in organizations. As long as we think that, we'll never get better. Here's what people resist: ...
In an organizational context, the word "vision" will often score you a point in "buzzword bingo." And that's too bad, because like a lot of those words, it has some important meaning behind it. On the other hand, I get w ...
