I've been thinking a lot about experimentation this week (see my two posts yesterday, one here and one on socialfish), so today's Humanize quote is from Chapter 9: How to Be Courageous, from the section on experimentatio ...
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein's work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are take ...
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom's awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says "we trust you. Use your best judgment." You don't h ...
Some consultants in the UK sent me a copy of their white paper entitled "Unleashing the Future of Work." I'm always happy to find kindred spirits, which was immediately apparent in this case, since the first line of the ...
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 ...
Winning the Story Wars: Why Those who Tell--and Live--the Best Stories Will Rule the Future by Jonah Sachs Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Maddie interviewed Jonah Sachs for an NTEN "Meet the Author" webinar, and ...
Social Media ROI: Managing and Measuring Social Media Efforts in Your Organization by Olivier Blanchard Thankfully, the debate about whether or not social media is a “fad” is fading away, so now we can really f ...
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities by Adam Kahane (Berrett-Keohler, 2004) Adam Kahane was one of several incredibly smart and now famous people who worked for Royal ...
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus by Michael Roberto Wharton School Publishing, 2005 Although the words are not in the title, this is a book about decision making. As a ...
Next week, Maddie and I will be in San Francisco for a one-day conference called the MIX Mashup. And this time, we're NOT speaking. We are actually going to attend a conference for a change! But when you see the list of ...
