In about a month, I will have the privilege of delivering the keynote address at Impact99, a small conference for human resources professionals taking place in Toronto. I'll be speaking about (you guessed it) Humanize, a ...
I posted two weeks ago about the awesome slide deck that Netflix put up on SlideShare about their culture (that deck has been viewed 2.2 million times, by the way). My first post focused on only one of the seven points t ...
From Ben Horowitz: Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meeti ...
This is one of my notes from the MIX Mashup event. It was something that Terri Kelly, the CEO of W.L. Gore and Associates said. Well, technically she said "associates" and not employees. At Gore, there are only two title ...
This was one of the key messages from the Mix Mashup that I attended in San Francisco this week. The conference was amazing. I am rarely around so many powerful thinkers. By the end of the day, my brain was exhausted, bu ...
I found myself giving that advice last week at the ASAE Finance, HR, and Business Operations Conference. I was part of a presentation called "The Adaptive CFO" (along with Charlie Tate of Tate and Tyron and Joe Janela, t ...
Maddie and I delivered the first of four webinars about the Humanize book, being offered through our Publisher, Que. This one included 10 tips for being more open as an organization. At the end of the webinar, we had on ...
In Belgium a couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out with Olivier Blanchard. He is ridiculously smart, and a fellow Que author--his book is called Social Media ROI. It is actually quite a nice complement to ...
You've probably already seen this on Maddie's blog. And if not, you can also see it on Charlie Judy's HR Fishbowl site. And now I'm putting it here. What is it? It's a "manifesto" about the future of work. Maddie is the ...
I have a love/hate relationship with measurement. On one level, I can be frustrated by people who demand we measure everything, as if numbers proved the "truth." Many of the things that are the very most important in lif ...
