I did an interview on a really cool podcast this week, called Amazing Workplaces. It's almost an hour long, but check it out. Obviously I'm talking about our book, When Millennials Take Over, although Chris also asks me ...
This post was published originally on the Switch and Shift blog. One of the most pronounced trends in business over the last five years or so has been the move toward greater transparency. This trend has been driven p ...
This Thursday we'll be hosting another #CultureChat on twitter, and our topic will focus in on the what, when, and how of changing an existing culture. I find that a lot of the organizations with really amazing cultures ...
For obvious reasons, we care a lot about "results" in the business context. Like all good things, however, results has a bit of a shadow side. By focusing so much on the results, we often will seek to get (or at least tr ...
I am one of many authors and bloggers these days who are writing about challenges to the traditional, command-and-control approach to management. And I will continue to do so, because I think the evidence is compelling a ...
I wrote a few months ago about Zappos' experiment with Holacracy, a system of management that discards the traditional hierarchy in favor of a flexible and dynamic one where employees are more responsible for managing th ...
Maddie and I delivered an internal webinar on When Millennials Take Over to a very large, global organization last week. The organizers read the book in order to develop a set of interview questions that were integrated ...
I was at a conference last week, and in one of the sessions we talked about some of the organizations that I call the "culture cool kids": Netflix, Zappos, Southwest, Google, Apple, etc. These organizations are frequentl ...
This is the title of the last chapter in When Millennials Take Over, and it is a quote that has been attributed to Florence Nightingale. We concluded the book with this title (they are actually the very last words in the ...
Okay, I fully admit that I really don't know much about farming, and I'm relying more on a stylized/truck-commercial-version of farming, but bear with me here. A lot of organizations seem to put off the work of creati ...
