Moneyball and Management Innovation

I’m now a huge fan of the movie Moneyball. I don’t think it’s cinematic genius necessarily, but it crystallizes some ideas for me that are central to my work, and central to what we’re saying in Humanize. And it does it in a way that makes them...

We Are Not Angry Enough (MIX Mashup Notes)

That was the first line in my notebook from the MIX Mashup event I attended in San Francisco a month ago. We’re not angry enough. The notebook has been sitting in my bag for a month. I never did a formal recap post. I did write a piece about freedom and...

The Results of Management Innovation

In a recent post I challenged everyone to consider innovating management, rather than just our products, services, or business models. We have come to expect innovation in our world in many areas, yet we are content to come to work and face practices and systems that...

Strategy Means Change

I did some strategy work with a client this week where they were drilling down below the level of core strategic principles and actually figuring out what they were going to do differently to move in their desired direction. I fully admit, I love the big picture stuff...

Want Innovation? Look at Management

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when the people who were advocating for innovation in organizations were considered a bit on the fringe. Maybe they were the technology geeks–because that’s where we assumed  innovation happened, at the product...

Failure versus Mistakes

On Tuesday, Maddie and I presented at the Blogworld New York conference, along with Amy Sample Ward from NTEN. It was fabulous to present with Amy. She told great stories about how NTEN actually puts into practice a lot of the ideas we express in Humanize. One of the...
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