Let's say you're on the beach building a sand castle. It's a nice sunny day, and you build quite a masterpiece with towers and moats and walls (heck, it can have a working drawbridge for all I care, because this is just ...

This is the last in my series of six "Exploring Humanize" blog posts where I go over the basic content in the book. If you missed the previous ones, just go to the Humanize category and you can scan through them all. And ...

When Maddie and I did an informal talk on the book back in August (before we were done editing!), one of the participants asked us to elaborate on what it means to be "generative." Of the four human elements in our trell ...

The second element in our Trellis for human organizations is trustworthy. It's unfortunately not a word we associate with organizations too frequently. Over the years, I think we've given up. We expect organizations to s ...

The first human element we dig into is "open," which is the focus of chapter 6. We started with open because we think it has always been the foundation of social media's power. Social media took what was closed and made ...

The thesis of our book is that organizations need to be more human. Social media has been succeeding very specifically because it taps into what makes us human, and our organizations seem very stuck in a machine-based wo ...

This is the first in a series of posts about the new book that Maddie Grant and I wrote, Humanize. I'll be writing an "Exploring Humanize" post every day for the next week as part of the launch. Enjoy! One of the main r ...

We can officially declare our new book, Humanize, to be launched! I got my author copies last week, as shown in the picture, and it is now in stock at Amazon (still "pre-order" for some reason on Barnes and Noble), and I ...