Events Next Week
I will be in San Francisco all of next week, which will include two different speaking events. The first will be on Tuesday, April 16th, and it's a public event being put on by the Bay Area Organization Development Ne ...
Category: Humanize
The Increasing Importance of Internal Collaboration
A few weeks ago I wrote about a "window of opportunity" that organizational leaders have now. In short, "social business" (integrating social tools and principles into the way you lead and manage organizations) is not fu ...
Machine Thinking Isn’t All Bad
I delivered the day 2 keynote address at Avectra's AUDC conference last week. It was the first time I delivered this particular keynote--I've integrated some of the more recent research on social business into the points ...
Window of Opportunity
This week I had the great pleasure of being a very active part of the TalentCulture community. On Tuesday, I was the guest on the BlogTalkRadio show hosted by Kevin Grossman and Meghan Biro, and on Wednesday I was the mo ...
7 Tips for (Seriously) Humanizing Your Brand
I am growing weary of the multitude of posts out there talking about humanizing your brand, but it's not because they're using the word humanize (Maddie and I don't claim to own that term in any way). There are two main ...
Good for Owners, Bad for Humans
So I got more than a couple of tweets and emails from friends the other day who noticed a post on Seth Godin's blog, called "Humanize It." Their first suggestion, of course, was that we send him a book. (For the record, ...
The Limits of Being Inside
I was reading an HBR blog post from Eric Hellweg about a panel he attended at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It was focused on the future of education. This isn't particularly my field, so I almost skipped it, but he ...
Trust. Again. (Looking at you, leaders)
Edelman's annual Trust survey is out. Some of the numbers actually went up this year, but as in previous years, they are basically describing a trust "crisis." The numbers vary by country and by industry, but there's eno ...
White Paper: Making Performance Management Work
This year I'm launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I'm launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I'm call ...
More on Leadership and Social Media
Late last fall, Maddie and I released the results of a survey we did with 500 professionals about the link between social media and leadership. We think there are some interesting data points in there that can help organ ...