As I typed in the title of this blog post, I asked myself, "Why would I have the need to say that out loud?!" But I do. Because in organizations, many of us are miserable with the way things are, and instead of changi ...
This week's Friday quote is by Peter Block (though I'm reading the quote in Lindy and Maddie's Open Community book, p. 118): Community is not built by specialized expertise, or great leadership, or improved services; it ...
Almost everyone is on the data bandwagon these days. Even those who might still be skeptical about the whole "big data" thing will likely admit that using data in decision making is critical, and we all have stories of o ...
One of the main points that I make in my keynote speeches these days is that we are currently standing in the neutral zone between two distinct eras of leadership and management. The old era started in the early 1900s, a ...
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by the Arbinger Institute Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2010 This book argues that many problems we face internally in our organizations (conflict among e ...
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the Fluid Power Association. How does an association executive build and sustain the culture of his organization? Specifically, what is his role versus others in the or ...
Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible by Les McKeown Do Book Co, 2014 In Chapter 3 of Humanize, Maddie and I take to task the authors, experts, and even “gurus” on the topic of leaders ...
That title is actually the polite version of some advice that Brian Chesky, the CEO of AirBnB, got from someone who had just given him $150 million in startup funding. What the VC actually said, was "Don't fuck up the cu ...
I read a good article online about the founder's role in setting the culture of a startup company. The article talks a lot about Facebook and Zuckerberg as an example, but I've seen this one first hand, and it's been doc ...
The third of the four human elements we discuss in Humanize is "Generative." This has always been the one people are initially least clear about, as generative is not a commonly used word (in any context, let alone the b ...
