I received this question via Twitter last night: It's a good question. Decentralization certainly sounds like a structural issue, and that is a part of it. But I put more of it into culture. In Humanize, decentralizat ...
I'm reading a great book right now: Beyond Performance, by Scott Keller and Colin Price. They are McKinsey consultants and have done tons of survey research with their clients to try uncover some new ways of thinking abo ...
Last week I did a keynote address for the summer conference of Goodwill Industries, and in my presentations these days, fairly early on I suggest that we have a significant problem in our organizations today: Management ...
If you want to see the slides from today's keynote for Goodwill Industries, they are embedded below. This was a fun talk because I was asked to deliver it in a "TED style" with only 20 minutes max to deliver the message. ...
In a keynote session last week about Humanize, I once again challenged the effectiveness of strategic planning. In the book, strategic planning is one of three traditional management "best practices" that we shine a crit ...
Thanks to everyone at the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE) for having me as their morning keynote speaker today. Below are the slides from that presentation if you're interested. Creati ...
I'm now a huge fan of the movie Moneyball. I don't think it's cinematic genius necessarily, but it crystallizes some ideas for me that are central to my work, and central to what we're saying in Humanize. And it does it ...
That was the first line in my notebook from the MIX Mashup event I attended in San Francisco a month ago. We're not angry enough. The notebook has been sitting in my bag for a month. I never did a formal recap post. I di ...
In a recent post I challenged everyone to consider innovating management, rather than just our products, services, or business models. We have come to expect innovation in our world in many areas, yet we are content to c ...
I delivered a session on Humanize earlier this week at an event put on by Goodwill Industries. There is one part part of my talk I have titled "management is failing." For those of you who have read the book, that part o ...
