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 ...
Edelman's annual Trust survey is out. Some of the numbers actually went up this year, but as in previous years, they are basically describing a trust "crisis." The numbers vary by country and by industry, but there's eno ...
I read in Forbes about a new list out of the best places to work, and this one is from Glassdoor. Unlike some of the other lists, where the companies actually apply to be on the list, this one is a big survey of employee ...
Maddie and I did a webinar yesterday along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. We love using NTEN as a case study of a human organization, and during the conversation, Amy was talking about NTEN's values, including their "we ...
Today I noticed a post on HBR from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. He said that there was one HBR article--from 12 years ago no less--that still guides Google as they grow and develop today. Obviously, this is an articl ...
Nearly two years ago, my friend Jeff De Cagna wrote a series of posts for ASAE's blog (remember Acronym!?) about Umair Haque's book, The New Capitalist Manifesto. Jeff started the series with a point about disruption. Ap ...
So I am back from my whirlwind, three-city tour last week (Phoenix, Toronto, Chicago), which explains my lack of blogging. I had a fabulous time at three very different events. Monday I was speaking at the Organization D ...
Organizational culture is a funny thing. I think most people would agree that it's important. I don't hear people saying, "Nah, it doesn't matter what our organizational culture is; we'll perform well regardless." And if ...
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, ...
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points t ...
