I was at an event last week for association CEOs on finding and keeping top talent. The topic of culture was raised repeatedly (yay!), but in the middle of the panel discussion, a CEO of a large and successful associatio ...
Digital is a mindset. We'll be exploring that more in our upcoming book, but I was flipping through Altimeter's 2014 "State of Digital Transformation" report, and in the companies they surveyed (88% of whom reported b ...
If you want real change, then start with culture. Let me run some if/then suppositions by you: If you want to change your business model, then you need to change your culture. If you want to build an online co ...
I am a huge fan of Clay Shirky, and he wrote this post about the death of newspapers over on Medium. Then today I see an HBR blog post about how publishing is NOT dead. I'm not sure the two articles are as contradictory ...
One of the main points that I make in my keynote speeches these days is that we are currently standing in the neutral zone between two distinct eras of leadership and management. The old era started in the early 1900s, a ...
If you are out there actually changing your culture, then I need to prepare you for the inevitable. Well, maybe "inevitable" is too strong a word. But after you make progress moving in the direction of the desired cultur ...
Strategic moves can be copied, or at least emulated. We can study what other companies do strategically, and then copy, to some extent, their approach within our context. Strategies and the organizations they are attache ...
Most organizations don't talk about their culture too much. We're too busy doing the work, and the culture sits in the background mostly. It's how we do things here, but that doesn't mean we need to talk about it. It is ...
One of the reasons I think so many organizations are stuck is that they have too much of management set on auto-pilot. There are too many things that we do in managing our organizations that are done automatically, witho ...
Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser Kodak, once a $10 billion dollar company, failed. Just when they needed to innovate the most, they focused on optimization instead. Innovation and optimization are at either ends of the sp ...
