You've probably heard me say this before, but Maddie and I are activists. While we love to write and think big thoughts, we are ultimately not satisfied until what we are doing actually helps people to do things differen ...
Next week, Maddie and I are offering a FREE webinar that covers the "Open" chapter of Humanize. It is the first in a four-part series (the other three will cover Trustworthy, Generative, and Courageous). We'll give you s ...
That's the response I get from the people who are very passionate about strategic planning. In case you don't know me, I think strategic planning is horrible. In Humanize, we devote nearly 8 full pages to why strategic p ...
You've probably already seen this on Maddie's blog. And if not, you can also see it on Charlie Judy's HR Fishbowl site. And now I'm putting it here. What is it? It's a "manifesto" about the future of work. Maddie is the ...
Sohrab Vossoughi wrote a great post on HBR about Sony and how its successful strategy in the 1980s ended up being unique to that context. In other words, a winning strategy is context specific, thus it needs to evolve an ...
I have officially grown tired of the excuse that change is hard. Change is not hard. And it's not change that people resist in organizations. As long as we think that, we'll never get better. Here's what people resist: ...
That's the title from a panel session I helped deliver at the Great Ideas Conference last week. The description from the brochure: People make innovation happen. Ok, but how do they do it? Join us to learn tips and techn ...
So I am back from what might be my 11th or 12th Great Ideas conference (I've been to them all, back to the GWSAE days, but I've lost count), and as usual I had a great time. I enjoyed delivering both the deep dive on Hum ...
This article by Steve Denning on Forbes.com really hit me. Much of it cites Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who has an article in Vanity Fair that argues our current economic downturn isn't just a cyclical ...
I spoke this week at Avectra's User and Developer Conference (AUDC). It was awesome conference. I can't even put my finger on it entirely, but the energy and learning and interactions all seemed...accelerated somehow. We ...
