Scaling Up Excellence (Review)
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Crown Business, 2014 I am particularly excited to review this book because I had the privilege to get an advance ...
Category: Books and Reading
Book Review: Small Giants
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham Portfolio, 2005 As you can see, this is not a new book--bordering on 10 years old--but it's worth a review, because it has some rea ...
Your Database Is Not Your Community (Friday Quote)
This edition of the Friday quote is not from Humanize--it's from Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web, by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. This book came out in 2010 (a life ...
Top 8 Blog Posts of 2013
Below are the top 8 blog posts of this year, as ranked by page views. It's hard to do a straight, objective ranking here, since looking at page views on an annual basis gives an edge to the older posts, so I looked at th ...
Book Review: Fierce Loyalty
Fierce Loyalty: Unlocking the DNA of Wildly Successful Communities by Sarah Robinson Hayfield Publishing, 2012 I'm halfway through several good business books right now, but I was able to squeeze in a small but ...
Excerpt from Culture Ebook
In case you didn't see it, SmartBrief has reprinted an excerpt from my new ebook, Culture That Works, over on their SmartBlog on Leadership. It's from Chapter 2, and it includes my definition of culture. My favorite quot ...
Generational Research Does Not Provide Answers (Friday Quote)
I haven't done a Friday Quote in a while, and today I'm drawing from an ebook that I wrote (gasp) six years ago, on Generational Diversity. I've been thinking a lot about generations lately. I'm wondering if it's time to ...
Ebook Release: Culture That Works
I am excited to announce the release of my second ebook, Culture that Works: How Getting Serious About Culture Unlocks New Performance. My intention with this book is to make culture (and culture change) somethin ...
The Fallacy of Individual Leadership (Friday Quote)
To complete my impromptu CEO theme of this week, today's Humanize quote comes from Chapter 3, where we document the failures of modern management. Specifically, we take on 3 "best practices" in the management field: stra ...
Sneak Peek at New eBook on Culture (Friday Quote)
I am almost done with my ebook on culture. The working title is A Culture that Works. It's going to be an app-specific release, using the Snippet App, that my friend Ted Coiné told me about. It's about 11,000 words, so i ...