Taking Steps to Fix HR
Thanks to everyone who read last week's Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said "I'm with you, so what's next?" In this post, we're going to get started. And I really should apologize for the ...
Category: Culture
Friday Quote: Free Your Mind
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I'll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It's from the section on creating a culture that ...
Harnessing the Power of Social Business (Slides)
Below are the slides (with some notes) from the presentation I made this week at the Associations Forum National Conference in Sydney, Australia (okay, I wasn't there in person, but I made the presentation via Skype). I ...
Clarity. By the Minute.
I hope you've seen the blog post that I wrote last Friday over on the Clarity.fm website. It's titled "Create a Culture that Drives Success, Not One that Makes You Feel Good." The founder of Clarity asked me to do a post ...
The Connection between Strategy and Operations
In Monday's post I talked about Rita Gunther McGrath's HBR article on Transient Advantage. She suggests that in today's fast-paced, ever-changing world, companies should not be looking for a sustained competitive advanta ...
Friday Quote: The Stability of Culture
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein's work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are take ...
Friday Quote: Use Fewer Words If You Want Action
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom's awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says "we trust you. Use your best judgment." You don't h ...
The Secret is Learning
Give yourself a little bit of time (it's a long article), but definitely read this fabulous article about the "bossless office" written by Matt Shaer for New York Magazine. He is basically documenting the "decentralizat ...
You are Responsible for the Culture
I urge everyone to watch this video of General David Morrison of the Australian Army. It's only 3 minutes, and in the video he makes crystal clear his views about sexual harassment in the Australian Army. Apparently ther ...
Friday Quote: Values Should be about Clarity
I'm starting a new feature of the blog: the Friday Quote. I'm going to pick a short quote from Humanize or a book that I am reading that connects to what I have been working on that week, and share it with the hopes of s ...