Will you be found out?
The manager’s dilemma. Recently I was having coffee with a friend who works at a well-established management consulting company near my house. He was telling me about a very uncomfortable conversation...
View ArticleMy Wife Hates Bananas
We went to a banana convention. My wife really hates bananas. She can’t stand them. The texture, smell, look and even the suggestion of bananas make her vomitous. Even the best, most caring, highest...
View ArticleShut Up and Listen (And Other Advice for First-Time Leaders)
Unless you’re a solo freelancer, chances are you will eventually be thrust into a leadership position. As creatives, we must embrace this challenge and not shy away from it, as a fear of being a leader...
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Give Good Interview: Shotgun Tips (re-post)
Interviewing someone for a job is a curious skill. It’s like cleaning a loaded gun. You want to be meticulous about each part or you might accidentally blow your head off. OK, it’s not actually...
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6 Ways to Build a Team of Do-ers and Decision-Makers
The death of strategic planning has been greatly exaggerated. But it’s true that we’re at a moment in time where top-down planning is less and less effective. Rather than set a plan and rigid parts to...
View ArticleUse These 5 “Weird Rules” To Boost Innovation
The right approach for routine work is almost always wrong for creative work. We look at 5 weird ways to boost your creativity from Stanford professor Robert Sutton. Ten years ago, Stanford professor...
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Diagnose Your Potential for Business Growth
Is your business ready to grow? Does that involve acquiring new clients, developing your current clients, adding leadership, creating new products or services, or entering a new industry or market? If...
View ArticleSelf-delusion is One of the Greatest Inventions in Human History: The 2013...
“Self-delusion is one of the greatest inventions in human history.” – AJ Jacobs on how to “act your way into a new way of thinking” The Benefits are in the Seams The 99U Conference is my favorite...
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The 99% Conference 2012 Recap: Thoughts and Sound Bites on Making Ideas...
Still vibrating from last week’s 99% Conference at the Times Center in New York. The experience was built to answer one question: how do you execute on your ideas? My overall impression was that the...
View Article#SXSW12 “Organization Design is For Lovers” Slide Deck
Thanks everyone who made it to my Future15 presentation today! You can view or download the slide deck. I’ll post the audio when that’s up as well. Organization Design is for Lovers View more...
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Let’s Meet in Austin!: ‘Organization Design is for Lovers’ Happening at SXSW
I’m excited to head down to Austin to give my talk ‘Organization Design is for Lovers’ as part of Future15, SXSW Interactive’s TED-style short-form solo presentation format. It’s happening Saturday,...
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The Problem with Goals
I’ve personally witnessed the value of taking time out to really consider the future, of brainstorming, and of having a healthy and broad conversation with your organization’s best interests at heart....
View ArticleHow to Be Free (in life and business) [video]
Download this as a one-page .pdf. credits: music: “utopia (instrumental)” by yacht used under a creative commons attribution noncommercial sharealike license. font: blackout by league of moveable type...
View ArticleChoose Your Own Economy
Note: This post first went out on the subscriber list. It’s a taste of what happens there. Words I manifest OK–if I were the manifesto writing type, I’d have enough for a manifesto! A set of values and...
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Back to Square One
It’s time to relaunch. And it’s happening in front of a live studio audience. I’m going to be avoiding the blog here a little bit. And getting pretty uncut as it all unfolds on the list. So if that...
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“How Do I Know I’m in the Middle?” and Other Amazing Questions About the...
Things are changing. Big things are on the horizon. The excitement is too much! I’m jumping out of my skin and I can’t really keep it to myself anymore. Yesterday I conducted the first Secret...
View ArticleBuy a Book, Save a Life: An Interview with Michael Bungay Stanier
In case you hadn’t heard, today is End Malaria Day. I wanted to share with you an interview that I conducted with Michael Bungay Stanier, author of Do More Great Work and editor of a new collection of...
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