Fast Company Magazine, believe it or not, has been around for almost 20 years. It was founded in 1995 by Bill Taylor and Alan Webber (who were previously editors at Harvard Business Review). I remember when I was doing m ...
Maddie and I are offering our first extensive training program for organizations on how to implement the ideas in Humanize, starting this January. We're teaming up with NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network), which happens ...
Nearly two years ago, my friend Jeff De Cagna wrote a series of posts for ASAE's blog (remember Acronym!?) about Umair Haque's book, The New Capitalist Manifesto. Jeff started the series with a point about disruption. Ap ...
So I am back from my whirlwind, three-city tour last week (Phoenix, Toronto, Chicago), which explains my lack of blogging. I had a fabulous time at three very different events. Monday I was speaking at the Organization D ...
We don't take the orientation process nearly as seriously as we should. And even when we take it seriously, we tend to focus on administrative details. We make sure people have the HR forms and employee manuals. That's a ...
Next Tuesday Maddie and I will be doing a FREE one-hour webinar in partnership with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. In fact, one of NTEN's staff members--Amy Ward-- will be delivering the webinar with us. Maddie ...
Do you value learning? Or is it really just the "idea" of learning something new that is valued? This was an interesting question posed by Cameron Norman in a blog post about how "serious" we are about learning. Many of ...
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, ...
In about a month, I will have the privilege of delivering the keynote address at Impact99, a small conference for human resources professionals taking place in Toronto. I'll be speaking about (you guessed it) Humanize, a ...
A couple of times over the last few months, people have asked me whether we tackle the topic of education in Humanize. We don't, specifically, but I get where the question is coming from. We argue in Humanize that shifti ...
