Radically Different Management is Possible

In my keynote speeches, I’m frequently telling the audience that you don’t have to take a radical approach to the changes I’m advocating. Yes, I think we need more transparency, but that doesn’t mean you need to share everything with everybody....

IBM Report on Social Business

IBM is a leader in social business, and I like how their latest report frames the opportunities for companies who want to go in this direction. Based on their research, companies that are doing this are using social business to do three things:  Create valued customer...

Friday Quote: The Times Are Changing

I’m mixing it up a little this week, and my Friday quote is NOT from Humanize. In fact, I’m going to go back in time a year or two (0r 50) to pull a quote from the great Bob Dylan: Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What...

Become Anti-Fragile

That’s a new term I learned reading this post at Harvard Business Review: anti-fragile. There’s a whole book about it, apparently, and I like the premise: Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors,...

Thank a Teacher

The past two days I’ve been immersed in graduations. My oldest daughter graduated high school, and my youngest daughter graduated middle school. For each of them, they’ve been at their particular schools for quite a few years now. I watched them march...
Jamie Notter