Taking Steps to Fix HR
Thanks to everyone who read last week's Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said "I'm with you, so what's next?" In this post, we're going to get started. And I really should apologize for the ...
Category: Humanize
Friday Quote: Free Your Mind
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I'll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It's from the section on creating a culture that ...
It’s More Than Making Work Better
My last post seems to have struck a nerve with a lot of people (yay!). And I do hope I can get some conversation going, either through comments or other blog posts, from folks within HR. I was serious about being inclusi ...
An Open Letter to Human Resources
Dear Human Resources Field, I’ve been struggling with how to say this in the most supportive and effective way possible (because I do love you), but after a seemingly endless stream of imperfect drafts that I have del ...
Friday Quote: Being Honest About What We Don’t Know
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we challenge traditional thinking on management. We pick on three areas specifically: strategic planning, human resource management, and leadership. I always expected that we would receive some ...
Re-Thinking the Employee-Employer Contract
There's another stellar article in the June HBR (posts here and here are about the other good one). This one is about the new employer-employee contract (check out this site). I hear a fair amount of complaints about ...
Harnessing the Power of Social Business (Slides)
Below are the slides (with some notes) from the presentation I made this week at the Associations Forum National Conference in Sydney, Australia (okay, I wasn't there in person, but I made the presentation via Skype). I ...
Friday Quote: Experimentation and Innovation
I've been thinking a lot about experimentation this week (see my two posts yesterday, one here and one on socialfish), so today's Humanize quote is from Chapter 9: How to Be Courageous, from the section on experimentatio ...
Harnessing the Power of Social Business
Next week I am speaking at an Australian Association Conference. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean I'll be in Australia (though for the record, I am still trying to make that happen sometime in the next year!). I'll be sp ...
Friday Quote: The Stability of Culture
This idea is drawn from Ed Schein's work on corporate culture, and it made it into Chapter 4 of Humanize (p. 68): First, cultures are inherently stable. Because they are built upon thoughts and assumptions that are take ...