I read about an interesting study in HBR that concludes that noncompete agreements (standard in many employment contracts) can actually stifle performance. In short, knowing that they are restricted in future opportuniti ...
There is an article in the December 2013 issue of the Atlantic titled, "They're Watching You at Work." It's not so much about privacy or spying, as it is about big data, and how that can be applied, not to sales and mark ...
Remember the early days of Twitter, when nobody understood it? I was a fairly early adopter, and I remember that the number-one complaint I would hear from people who didn't understand Twitter was that they really didn't ...
The November/December issue of Associations Now Magazine has an awesome story about Fitness Australia and the way they have built a successful organization around an intentional culture. I was proud to be a part of that ...
Maddie pointed me to this great post by Stowe Boyd on the GigaOm blog, which is in reaction to this great post by Chris Heuer over on Brian Solis' blog. They are both fairly long posts, but here's the gist. Chris Heue ...
To complete my impromptu CEO theme of this week, today's Humanize quote comes from Chapter 3, where we document the failures of modern management. Specifically, we take on 3 "best practices" in the management field: stra ...
I spoke at the National Association of Corporate Directors' Board Leadership Conference this week. I was given 20 minutes on their "Innovation Stage" to talk about the relationship between social media and management. My ...
From an interesting New York Times interview with Michael Gould, the CEO of Bloomingdales, here are some Humanize-related quotes: I believe the business I’m in is giving people an opportunity to grow. At the end of the ...
Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the ...
Peter Kim wrote a great post titled, “Can Brands Be Human?” It was a refreshing perspective (amidst the 1,001 posts out there with x number of tips for humanizing your brand), pointing out that sometimes when brands act ...
