Thanks to Jeff De Cagna for pointing out this interesting article by venture capitalist Paul Graham about “managers schedule” versus “makers schedule.” By “maker” he is referring to people like software programmers and writers. They organize their schedule very differently…

In Gary Hamel’s book, he suggests three areas on which to focus when creating a more human organization, and one of them is “too much management, too little freedom.” As I said in my previous post, most people will agree…

I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That’s authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I expect leadership to…

Thanks to Etienne Laliberté of the Contrarian Thinking blog for including me among a list of favorite blog posts–not only because it was nice and might have diverted a few more people to my Strategy in Four Words or Less…

I caught a little big of flack a few months ago when I suggested total transparency around financial information in organizations, which included telling everyone what everyone else made. A few people pointed out to me that it was easy for me to throw this gauntlet down, since I didn’t employ…

David Patt over on the Association Executive Management blog recently attended a session for CEOs about employee engagement, and one of the CEOs asked the following question:

Why it is OK to leave the office early for a family dinner but not for an acting class? Neither has value to the association…