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 ...
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 ...
My kids are in middle school and high school, and they were telling me this morning about one of their recent lessons about the difference between correlation and causation. Apparently you can show a statistically signif ...
I searched on my blog for the post I wrote about the "hard work of clarity." I thought it would be on the first page or two of results because it must have been recently. Turns out it was from 2009, after the session th ...
The headline in the email from smartbrief captured my attention: 6 Reasons that Women Make Great Leaders Congratulations to marketer who wrote that subject line! It got me to open the email and click on the article. Th ...
The very first words in our book Humanize are from the character Morpheus, in the movie The Matrix: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony ...
Today I noticed a post on HBR from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. He said that there was one HBR article--from 12 years ago no less--that still guides Google as they grow and develop today. Obviously, this is an articl ...
In nearly every presentation I give about Humanize, a question comes up about whether or not these changes I'm talking about need to start from the top. I certainly see the value of a "sponsor" at the executive level, bu ...
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 ...
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 ...
