That is perhaps my favorite single quote in all of Humanize. It was a one-sentence paragraph in Chapter 3 (p. 34): "There is just one problem. Best practices are evil." To be honest, I think most people skip over the pag ...
It's been a few days since I left the ASAE meeting in Atlanta. I had a great time, as usual, but there has been one issue that has been bouncing around in my brain since I left. Towards the end of the meeting, I saw this ...
Since I have been asking people to step outside of their comfort zone a little this week, I'll close it out with a quote from Chapter 9 in Humanize, How to Be Courageous. It's from the section on creating a culture that ...
If you don't know Eric Lanke, you should. He's the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he writes on the best CEO-authored blogs out there. I've known him for several years no ...
I've been thinking a lot about experimentation this week (see my two posts yesterday, one here and one on socialfish), so today's Humanize quote is from Chapter 9: How to Be Courageous, from the section on experimentatio ...
People with disabilities face many barriers to good health. Studies mentioned in this official site shows that individuals with disabilities are more likely than people without disabilities to report: Having poorer ...
Give yourself a little bit of time (it's a long article), but definitely read this fabulous article about the "bossless office" written by Matt Shaer for New York Magazine. He is basically documenting the "decentralizat ...
I watched this TED talk yesterday, given by John McWorter, who is a linguist. The talk (only 13 minutes, definitely worth it) explains why the younger generation, with their penchant for text messaging, is NOT proof that ...
At a conference the other day, Jeff De Cagna was making a presentation about ways in which the association community needs to think differently. He was covering topics from his ebook, Associations Unorthodox. I liked som ...
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 ...
