This year I'm launching a new White Paper series that takes some of the key ideas in Humanize and gets practical and concrete with them. Today, I'm launching the first one: Making Performance Management Work. I'm call ...
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 ...
People have been complaining about "silos" in organizations for years and years. In solving one problem (putting people together in a department in order to deepen expertise and be efficient), we created some new ones (t ...
Way back in 2005 I said performance reviews were a problem (in We Have Always Done It That Way--still a good book, if I do say so myself). Since then, many others have been coming out against performance reviews--like th ...
Valve is a computer software company that's on my list to research more, because it definitely exhibits "humanize" tendencies. It's received a lot of attention for its new employee handbook, which is not the traditional, ...
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 ...
Google has a cool online publication called Think Quarterly. The current issue is about Open, which obviously gets my attention, given that one of the four human elements we identify in Humanize is Open. Senior Google ex ...
We don't take the orientation process nearly as seriously as we should. And even when we take it seriously, we tend to focus on administrative details. We make sure people have the HR forms and employee manuals. That's a ...
There is a fairly straightforward post on the HBR blog about putting big data to use. The article provides guidelines to companies who recognize the potential of big data, but aren't sure where to start. It provides guid ...
You might as well. Because according to the research report put out by Towers Watson, only about one third of employees (globally) are highly engaged in their jobs. They surveyed 32,000 people to come to that conclusion, ...
