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 ...
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we challenge traditional thinking on management. We pick on three areas specifically: strategic planning, human resource management, and leadership. I always expected that we would receive some ...
There's another stellar article in the June HBR (posts here and here are about the other good one). This one is about the new employer-employee contract (check out this site). I hear a fair amount of complaints about ...
Here's a great article from Business Insider that exposes an inconvenient truth: we have no idea what we're doing when we hire people. As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt ...
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 ...
Below are my slides from my recent keynote on generations (click here if you can't see the embedded slides). Check it out. ...
This is not a rhetorical question--I am openly wondering about this topic these days. I'm reading Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It, by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, advocates for the "Results Only Work Environment." Th ...
I saw a blog post the other day that said it is "almost cliche" now to point out that employees are not motivated by money, as if everyone now knows that is true. Dan Pink perhaps leads the way in advancing this idea in ...
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 ...
A few weeks ago I wrote about a "window of opportunity" that organizational leaders have now. In short, "social business" (integrating social tools and principles into the way you lead and manage organizations) is not fu ...
