I'm mixing it up a little this week, and my Friday quote is NOT from Humanize. In fact, I'm going to go back in time a year or two (0r 50) to pull a quote from the great Bob Dylan: Come mothers and fathers Throughout ...
That's a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review: anti-fragile. There's a whole book about it, apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness ...
The past two days I've been immersed in graduations. My oldest daughter graduated high school, and my youngest daughter graduated middle school. For each of them, they've been at their particular schools for quite a few ...
I delivered a webinar with Brad Palmer of Jostle yesterday titled "Transforming Your Workplace Culture from Toxic to Humanized." It was a great event, with 140 people viewing and listening online, many of whom had GREAT ...
I saw a blog post the other day that said it is "almost cliche" now to point out that employees are not motivated by money, as if everyone now knows that is true. Dan Pink perhaps leads the way in advancing this idea in ...
I've got a cool webinar coming up next week: Transforming Your Culture from Toxic to Humanized. I'm giving it with Brad Palmer, who is the CEO of a very cool software company, Jostle, that I've written about before on th ...
I am seeing a window of opportunity for organizations today, and for the people who lead them. There is a shift happening right now in leadership and management, away from traditional command and control, and towards a m ...
I spent yesterday at a fabulous conference--xPotomac (formerly Blog Potomac), which focuses on social media and new technologies for mostly marketing and PR folks. It was a great event: limited in number of attendees, wi ...
This week I had the great pleasure of being a very active part of the TalentCulture community. On Tuesday, I was the guest on the BlogTalkRadio show hosted by Kevin Grossman and Meghan Biro, and on Wednesday I was the mo ...
I like this brief report from some McKinsey consultants (who have written a pretty good book too). The first conclusion in the study is one that is not new, but still bears repeating: culture matters. I love this selecti ...
