Although every organization is unique, nearly all of them share a core approach that is based in one, single field: Engineering. Consider this simple definition of engineering: Engineering combines the fields of scie ...
It is with some sadness that I acknowledge that "authenticity" is a buzzword. If you google "authenticity at work," you'll find that most of the posts on the first page are offering the COUNTER-point--that authenticity i ...
After my keynote last year for Sitrion's client conference, I sat down with Daniel Kraft, their super-smart CEO, and chatted about culture and human organizations. Check it out; it's about 6 minutes long (if you can't se ...
In Chapter 5 of Humanize, we actually go back a few centuries in our analysis, pointing out that the entire western world has been looking at the universe in a very mechanistic way since the 1600s, and we have Sir Isaac ...
One of the main points that I make in my keynote speeches these days is that we are currently standing in the neutral zone between two distinct eras of leadership and management. The old era started in the early 1900s, a ...
A generation lasts roughly twenty years. This corresponds to a rough measurement of "life stages" as well (0-19 is youth, 20 to 39 is early adult, 40 to 59 is midlife adult, and 60 to 79 is elder). Not all authors and re ...
The third of the four human elements we discuss in Humanize is "Generative." This has always been the one people are initially least clear about, as generative is not a commonly used word (in any context, let alone the b ...
I spoke to a CEO this week who intentionally focuses the culture of his small organization around authenticity. He said people shouldn't have to be a different person at work compared to how they are at home, or when eng ...
Inclusion is one of the 12 human principles that Maddie and I write about in Humanize (Chapter 8, starting on p. 190). We also talk about decentralization, and in this month's Harvard Business Review, Gail McGovern, the ...
Transparency is one of the 12 human principles that Maddie and I wrote about in Humanize, and it's one I come back to frequently. Along with decentralization, collaboration, and experimentation, I'd put transparency in m ...
