From an interesting New York Times interview with Michael Gould, the CEO of Bloomingdales, here are some Humanize-related quotes: I believe the business I’m in is giving people an opportunity to grow. At the end of the ...
Today I am delivering a pilot version of a workshop on strategic risk and decision making for management teams, co-delivered with Elizabeth Engel and Leslie White. Leslie is leading the discussion on risk and Elizabeth i ...
We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team perfor ...
Chapter 9 in Humanize is about organizations being courageous. At the beginning of the chapter, we talk about the idea of courage, and how it is over-romanticized in our culture. Courage is what we see from heroes in the ...
PwC does an annual survey of CEOs. Here are some interesting quotes from their 16th edition, released earlier this year: One key point of our strategic advantage is the capability to ‘orchestrate’ the production and eng ...
Get a copy of IBM's recent report on research they did with CEOs (hat tip to SmartBrief for pointing me there). I promise to do some more specific blog posts about it, because it has some important material in there, but ...
I just finished reading the new white paper that Elizabeth Engel and Peggy Hoffman have put out about "mission-driven volunteers," and it's fabulous. The paper makes a compelling case why the current model for volunteeri ...
Thanks to everyone who read last week's Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said "I'm with you, so what's next?" In this post, we're going to get started. And I really should apologize for the ...
My last post seems to have struck a nerve with a lot of people (yay!). And I do hope I can get some conversation going, either through comments or other blog posts, from folks within HR. I was serious about being inclusi ...
Dear Human Resources Field, I’ve been struggling with how to say this in the most supportive and effective way possible (because I do love you), but after a seemingly endless stream of imperfect drafts that I have del ...
