I was debriefing some internal culture data with a client, and the CEO opened the conversation with his other senior leaders by referencing a book that Marshall Goldsmith wrote a few years ago: What Got You Here Won’t Ge ...
Some of you know that in the last year I made the decision to personally switch to the metric system. I was originally inspired by a video from Dan Pink on this, and it was surprisingly easy for me to change little thing ...
One of the reasons that I don’t particularly like “core values” exercises is that they bring culture up to a level that’s so high, it ends up ignoring some important contradictions inside your culture. For example, I’ve ...
In the context of our work, culture analytics is the science of using workplace culture data to generate meaningful actions that improve organizational results, and it is the heart of what we do at Human Workplaces. When ...
So we've already been mentioning it here and there over the last several weeks, but I want to officially announce that Maddie Grant and I are joining forces with HR superstar Charlie Judy to form a new consulting company ...
With all the talk of "big data," I'm always amazed at the opportunities we squander to work with small data. I was working with a client recently that has a really strong culture. They've been working very hard at it ...
I've made the point for some time now that your culture should, ideally, be aligned with what drives your success. Lots of companies get lots of attention for how cool they are by having game rooms or beer taps, and that ...
Encourage Healthy Eating Habits Healthy eating is essential to a child's well-being. Children who are overweight are at risk for chronic health problems. The Weight-control Information Network (WIN), a ser ...
Check out the NYT article about the Amazon-competitor, Jet.com. To be honest, their ubiquitous commercials with people's heads exploding in purple dust were really annoying to me, but maybe I'll take a second look now th ...
I know that's a blanket statement, and heck, I don't even actually know what system YOU are using, right? But this is one of the areas in organizations where everyone does it the way everyone else does it, DESPITE signif ...
