I love to see other people run with the same ideas we wrote about in Humanize, and Liam Barrington-Bush is one of those people. He's working on a book, titled Anarchists in the Board Room, which applies not only the prin ...
I am seeing a window of opportunity for organizations today, and for the people who lead them. There is a shift happening right now in leadership and management, away from traditional command and control, and towards a m ...
This year I'm launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I'm launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I'm call ...
Late last fall, Maddie and I released the results of a survey we did with 500 professionals about the link between social media and leadership. We think there are some interesting data points in there that can help organ ...
Time once again for my annual year in review post. This has been a year focused heavily on the Humanize book. We're very pleased to have sold nearly 4,000 copies in the first year of the book, and we look forward to more ...
Time is running out to be a part of the inaugural "21st Century Nonprofit" program that Maddie and I are doing with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. The program begins in early January, and you need to fill out a ...
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)... ...
Maddie and I are offering our first extensive training program for organizations on how to implement the ideas in Humanize, starting this January. We're teaming up with NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network), which happens ...
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who donated to support Ride Allegheny this year. As I announced several times on this blog, I've been doing this ride for 10 years, and for the last five or six we've been raisi ...
We don't take the orientation process nearly as seriously as we should. And even when we take it seriously, we tend to focus on administrative details. We make sure people have the HR forms and employee manuals. That's a ...
