Be Intentional
I did a session at the ASAE annual meeting last week. I co-presented a "Conversations that Matter" session along with Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive who is actually implementing th ...
Category: Change
What Chains Do You Revere?
My friend Olivier Blanchard posted this quote on Facebook the other day: That's a beautiful quote. And in case you're wondering, the real application of this quote is not in you feeling superior to all those fools who ...
Moneyball and Management Innovation
I'm now a huge fan of the movie Moneyball. I don't think it's cinematic genius necessarily, but it crystallizes some ideas for me that are central to my work, and central to what we're saying in Humanize. And it does it ...
We Are Not Angry Enough (MIX Mashup Notes)
That was the first line in my notebook from the MIX Mashup event I attended in San Francisco a month ago. We're not angry enough. The notebook has been sitting in my bag for a month. I never did a formal recap post. I di ...
The Results of Management Innovation
In a recent post I challenged everyone to consider innovating management, rather than just our products, services, or business models. We have come to expect innovation in our world in many areas, yet we are content to c ...
Strategy Means Change
I did some strategy work with a client this week where they were drilling down below the level of core strategic principles and actually figuring out what they were going to do differently to move in their desired direct ...
Want Innovation? Look at Management
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when the people who were advocating for innovation in organizations were considered a bit on the fringe. Maybe they were the technology geeks--because that's where we assumed ...
Failure versus Mistakes
On Tuesday, Maddie and I presented at the Blogworld New York conference, along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. It was fabulous to present with Amy. She told great stories about how NTEN actually puts into practice a lot ...
Humanizing Business and Helping CFOs with Change
These are the topics of two presentations I'll be giving next week. The first is a session that I'll be doing at BlogWorld Expo in New York City, along with my coauthor Maddie Grant and Amy Ward, who is the Membership D ...
What if Employees are Resistant?
Maddie and I delivered the first of four webinars about the Humanize book, being offered through our Publisher, Que. This one included 10 tips for being more open as an organization. At the end of the webinar, we had on ...