I wrote this post a few days in advance, because today I am no where near a computer. I'm on day 2 of a four-day bike ride from Pittsburgh, PA to Gaithersburg, MD. It's the 11th time I've done this ride. Day 2 is particu ...
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh Business Plus, 2010 The online retailer Zappos is arguably the premiere poster-child for company culture in today's business world. Zap ...
Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the ...
Humanize is now available as an audio book on audible.com, and we've got five copies to give away! But instead of just giving 5 copies to the first five commenters, I thought I'd make it a bit more interesting. I want to ...
For this edition of the Friday quote, I'm pointing you to an excellent blog post by Danny Brown, in which he suggests that we think a bit more about the new term, "social business." He argues that the popular definitions ...
"Customer-centric" is a full-on buzzword these days, but it is in obvious extension of the big-picture social media trend we've been watching for several years now, where power is shifting away from the company and towar ...
That is perhaps my favorite single quote in all of Humanize. It was a one-sentence paragraph in Chapter 3 (p. 34): "There is just one problem. Best practices are evil." To be honest, I think most people skip over the pag ...
In Monday's post, I reflected about the ASAE Annual Meeting and how some of the sub-communities seemed to be operating in separate circles. My underlying concern in that post is that we're eliminating a critical componen ...
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I'll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It's from the section on creating a culture that ...
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we challenge traditional thinking on management. We pick on three areas specifically: strategic planning, human resource management, and leadership. I always expected that we would receive some ...
