When I speak about culture change, inevitably the audience (or more specifically, the organizer) is looking for something practical, that they can take home and apply right away. This can be a challenge when it comes to ...
Take six minutes to watch this TED talk given by General Stanley McChrystal, in which he makes the case for sharing information, rather than keeping it secret. He worked for years leading the fight against Al Qaeda in Ir ...
Last week, Maddie and I visited Menlo Innovations, a software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You may remember my book review a couple of months ago of Joy, Inc., written by Rich Sheridan, the founder and CEO of Menlo. M ...
That title is actually the polite version of some advice that Brian Chesky, the CEO of AirBnB, got from someone who had just given him $150 million in startup funding. What the VC actually said, was "Don't fuck up the cu ...
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association. How does an association executive build and sustain the culture of his organization? Specifically, what is his role versus others ...
I read a good article online about the founder's role in setting the culture of a startup company. The article talks a lot about Facebook and Zuckerberg as an example, but I've seen this one first hand, and it's been doc ...
What do you do with that person in your organization who is incredibly smart, incredibly knowledgeable, and incredibly good at their job--but also has very negative behaviors like bullying others, constantly criticizing, ...
Joy, Inc.: How We Built A Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan Portfolio/Penguin, 2013 This book is by Richard Sheridan, who is the CEO of Menlo Innovations, a software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They' ...
That was one of the lessons from the session I delivered today at ASAE's Great Ideas Conference (the slides are embedded below; if you can't see them, click here). In the session I told (once again) the story of Fitness ...
Next week is the ASAE Great Ideas Conference, and I am delivering a session on Tuesday morning titled, "Culture Change for Bottom Line Results." In the session, I'll talk about the work I did over the last few years with ...
