Become Anti-Fragile
That's a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review: anti-fragile. There's a whole book about it, apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness ...
Category: Humanize
Friday Quote: Use Fewer Words If You Want Action
From Chapter 6: How to Be Open, in Humanize (p. 127), this quote comes after we make reference to Nordstrom's awesome one-paragraph employee manual, that basically says "we trust you. Use your best judgment." You don't h ...
The Secret is Learning
Give yourself a little bit of time (it's a long article), but definitely read this fabulous article about the "bossless office" written by Matt Shaer for New York Magazine. He is basically documenting the "decentralizat ...
Friday Quote: Values Should be about Clarity
I'm starting a new feature of the blog: the Friday Quote. I'm going to pick a short quote from Humanize or a book that I am reading that connects to what I have been working on that week, and share it with the hopes of s ...
Five Tips for a Stronger Culture
Below are the slides from a keynote I did last week. I pulled out five lessons from the Humanize book that I think are most relevant to creating a stronger culture: Decentralization Transparency Systems Thinking ...
Social Business Grows in Importance
So MIT and Deloitte have done a repeat of their 2012 report on Social Business (that I cite frequently in my Humanize keynotes). They aren't releasing the full 2013 report until July, but they did a blog post teaser. ...
The Elephant in the Room: Culture [Guest Post]
[Below is my first guest post ever on this blog! It is an honor (honour?) I give to Robert Barnes of Fitness Australia. Robert is an association executive in Australia that has put a lot of time, energy, and effort into ...
More on Rethinking Management
Some consultants in the UK sent me a copy of their white paper entitled "Unleashing the Future of Work." I'm always happy to find kindred spirits, which was immediately apparent in this case, since the first line of the ...
Organizations are Flattening but Not Taking Risks
So I took a look at the data we've been collecting for the last year or so on the Humanize website through our Social Business Readiness Assessment. We took the ideas from Humanize and built them into a 60-question asses ...
What to Do When the Leaders Don’t “Get It”
I delivered a webinar with Brad Palmer of Jostle yesterday titled "Transforming Your Workplace Culture from Toxic to Humanized." It was a great event, with 140 people viewing and listening online, many of whom had GREAT ...