Note that the title says "easier," not "easy." It's rarely easy to fire people. In most cases the person that needs to go is a good person, and probably does a decent job--just not the job you need right now in this part ...
This week's Friday quote comes from The Alliance, a book written by Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn (and Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh). The book builds off of an HBR article that I wrote about last year, where Hoffm ...
Casinos have always taken care of their high rollers. They watch them closely, so if they have a bad night on the casino floor they can immediately do something like comp their room or give them free chance to a dream ja ...
Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser If you want a thriving organization you need to innovate. If you want to innovate you have to have a culture that supports it. In a recent discussion on ASAE’s online community Collabor ...
One of the most enduring conclusions that I drew based on the research and writing of Humanize was the idea that when it comes to leadership and management, we have no idea what we're doing. Seriously, most of our "best ...
You wouldn't think of designing a piece of software these days without considering the user experience. There is now a whole cadre of "user experience professionals" (with their own association, of course) who help to en ...
Yesterday I talked about becoming flatter as an organization in order to increase learning and agility. Today's lesson (also from Sloan Management Review) is about speed. The two are related, of course. One of the reason ...
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 ...
Conventional wisdom says we find those "A Team" players coming out of the top colleges and universities, with the best grades and test scores. Maybe not in every job, mind you, but certainly many, and definitely at a tec ...
By now, I assume you've heard of Google's fabled 20% time. They've changed it recently, but the original idea was simple: give every engineer at Google 20% of their time to work on something THEY thougth would be both in ...
