On the Road
I am off to Chicago and Antwerp this week. On Tuesday morning, I'll be doing the opening keynote at the annual meeting of IHRIM, the association for the Human Resource Information Management industry. The title of my ta ...
Category: Humanize
The Feeling of Failure
In Humanize, we talk a lot about courage. Courage is one of the four human elements--arguably the hardest one for organizations to master. Fear has long been at the root of organizational dysfunction. We are arguing that ...
Getting Serious About Collaboration
Collaboration is a bit of a buzzword these days. It is often that magic result we seek as we adopt a new technology solution or try to get employees to play nicely together in the sandbox. It's a feel-good word. We all l ...
Deep Dive on Humanize
Next week is ASAE's Great Ideas Conference, and Maddie and I are doing a "deep dive" session on Humanize on Sunday afternoon (after the opening General Session). A "deep dive" is a three-hour session, and I'm glad ASAE h ...
Preparing for an Entirely New Economy
This article by Steve Denning on Forbes.com really hit me. Much of it cites Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who has an article in Vanity Fair that argues our current economic downturn isn't just a cyclical ...
Making Your Business More Agile
I spoke this week at Avectra's User and Developer Conference (AUDC). It was awesome conference. I can't even put my finger on it entirely, but the energy and learning and interactions all seemed...accelerated somehow. We ...
Humanize "Must Reads" on Pinterest
Have you heard the buzz about Pinterest yet? It's one of those new social sites that will either be the next big thing or something nobody remembers in six months. But it is a nice interface, and it turns out to be a gre ...
Start by Looking Inside
Edelman's Annual "Trust Barometer" report is out. Maddie broke the news on SocialFishing, pointing out that trust in CEOs dropped precipitously (50% last year; 38% this year), where trust in the "regular employee" was up ...
Public Discourse on Humanize
At one level, getting a book published is a fairly scripted process. You write it, you publicize the heck out of it, you speak on it, and, if all goes well, a bunch of people buy it. Thousands of authors/publishers do th ...
Humanize and the Millennial Generation
Two weeks ago I wrote a post about an inherent paradox in the conversation about generational differences. The differences we see among generations are both true at the big picture level AND irrelevant at the individual ...