Just a quick post to remind everyone of a universal lesson: the grass is always greener on the other side. This week I've made presentations to some very different audiences. One group was made up of managers at reall ...
There is none. Sorry to disappoint you, but I think it's time we admitted the truth here. There is no "correct" organizational structure. Deep down, we crave that right answer, that perfect solution to the problem of str ...
That was one of the lessons from the session I delivered today at ASAE's Great Ideas Conference (the slides are embedded below; if you can't see them, click here). In the session I told (once again) the story of Fitness ...
Yesterday I commented on the number one frustration I hear from the non-users of social media (that it's all about what people had for lunch). Today we'll tackle another popular attack from a few years ago: that social m ...
I had not intended to create a little CEO theme on the blog, but after Monday's post on the role of the CEO (still looking for CEOs to weigh in on that, by the way), I came across an interesting article in the MIT Sloan ...
Everyone is part of a community that shares a certain worldview. They see things the same way. They "know" certain things are true. It's actually quite reassuring when you gather together and your own view of the world i ...
I know that we want it to be useful, but it isn't. I understand the desire, though. We are constantly told that it costs tons of money to hire a new staff person. That makes turnover a very bad thing, so the metric it ...
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 ...
I've read a few articles and blog posts about the death of Google's famous 20% time. If you've heard me speak on Humanize in the last year or two, you'll remember me citing Google's now (apparently) defunct policy as an ...
