Maddie and I were recently interviewed by George Breden of TMA Resources about our book, Humanize. George does a weekly video news show for TMA Resources, called Association Tech News. This week's edition includes a brie ...
Steve Drake pointed me to an interesting blog post based on some of the material from the most recent Steve Jobs biography. Apparently Jobs thought it was a problem when CEOs become too focused on sales: I have my own th ...
In case you missed it, I got the cover on the September/October issue of Associations Now magazine with an article about the main concepts in Humanize. "We Are Not Machines" makes the basic argument for creating more hum ...
Let's say you're on the beach building a sand castle. It's a nice sunny day, and you build quite a masterpiece with towers and moats and walls (heck, it can have a working drawbridge for all I care, because this is just ...
Everybody hates organizational silos. They are a problem. They get in the way. They need to be "busted." And to some extent, I agree. The way our different departments seem to erect walls separating them from each other ...
I have had the book Race for Relevance: 5 Radical Changes for Associations for a couple of months now, wanting to do a review here in the blog. I struggled a bit, though, because I am of two minds about the book. There i ...
This is the last in my series of six "Exploring Humanize" blog posts where I go over the basic content in the book. If you missed the previous ones, just go to the Humanize category and you can scan through them all. And ...
When Maddie and I did an informal talk on the book back in August (before we were done editing!), one of the participants asked us to elaborate on what it means to be "generative." Of the four human elements in our trell ...
The second element in our Trellis for human organizations is trustworthy. It's unfortunately not a word we associate with organizations too frequently. Over the years, I think we've given up. We expect organizations to s ...
The first human element we dig into is "open," which is the focus of chapter 6. We started with open because we think it has always been the foundation of social media's power. Social media took what was closed and made ...
