I was reading an HBR blog post from Eric Hellweg about a panel he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It was focused on the future of education. This isn't particularly my field, so I almost skipped it, but he ...
Today I noticed a post on HBR from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. He said that there was one HBR article--from 12 years ago no less--that still guides Google as they grow and develop today. Obviously, this is an articl ...
Read this blog post by Tonia Ries. She cites a study by Capgemini Consulting and MIT that examines the relative profitability and performance of organizations based on two dimensions: "digital intensity," and "transforma ...
So I am back from my whirlwind, three-city tour last week (Phoenix, Toronto, Chicago), which explains my lack of blogging. I had a fabulous time at three very different events. Monday I was speaking at the Organization D ...
Organizational culture is a funny thing. I think most people would agree that it's important. I don't hear people saying, "Nah, it doesn't matter what our organizational culture is; we'll perform well regardless." And if ...
In about a month, I will have the privilege of delivering the keynote address at Impact99, a small conference for human resources professionals taking place in Toronto. I'll be speaking about (you guessed it) Humanize, a ...
Here's another bit of content from my client presentation about innovation earlier this week. Yesterday I gave you my simple definition of innovation. After the definition, I talked about three different kinds of innovat ...
I facilitated a staff retreat for a department within a larger association yesterday, and they asked me to talk to them about innovation. So instead of borrowing a definition of innovation from one of the many innovation ...
I'm making my way through McKinsey's study about adoption of social technologies in the workplace. The study suggests we can find a 20% increase in proeductivity if we adopt these technologies (particularly in large orga ...
I'm reading a great book right now: Beyond Performance, by Scott Keller and Colin Price. They are McKinsey consultants and have done tons of survey research with their clients to try uncover some new ways of thinking abo ...
