I just stumbled on Diego Rodriguez's blog (hat tip to Bob Sutton) called metacool. Diego is a partner at IDEO and his blog is a must read for incorporating design thinking into what you do (according to Fast Company, any ...
Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen are two of my favorite people. They are consultants and speakers (like me), and they work around issues of diversity, HR, organization development (also like me). But that's not why I li ...
Have you heard the buzz about Pinterest yet? It's one of those new social sites that will either be the next big thing or something nobody remembers in six months. But it is a nice interface, and it turns out to be a gre ...
At one level, getting a book published is a fairly scripted process. You write it, you publicize the heck out of it, you speak on it, and, if all goes well, a bunch of people buy it. Thousands of authors/publishers do th ...
As authors Pfeffer and Sutton point out, there are nearly 2,000 books published each year, just in the “Business” category. There is no shortage of knowledge out there at our fingertips: knowledge about the best manageme ...
I've been pleased with the reviews that have been coming in on Humanize so far. We've got 11 on Amazon to date (but feel free to add one!), and a host of blog reviews as well. Most of them are from folks who know Maddie ...
A few weeks ago, Maddie and I were interviewed about Humanize by Les McKeown. Les is a best-selling author of a book titled Predictable Success, and we were interviewed for his blog. I was really impressed with him durin ...
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury Penguin, 1981 This might be the oldest book that I've reviewed here on the blog--the original edition published in 1981. Yes. Thirt ...
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 ...
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 ...
