What does the future look like? Truthfully, even the best futurists are right less than 90 percent of the time. When you look back at predictions for the future back in the early 20th century, [...]
Let's face it. Change would be easy if not for people. Building the sense of urgency to move forward and getting buy-in for your course of action are two of the most important leadership skills [...]
Change has changed. I know that sounds a bit cliche, but the pace of change has increased exponentially in the past decade. It used to be that the most successful people and companies anticipated and [...]
Every organization has a culture. The only question is whether yours will sustain and guide you to success in the future. Unfortunately, the importance of culture has been hijacked by those who believe that it [...]
The Oxford Dictionaries has selected a word of the year annually since 2004. It is a “word or expression that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year.” We’ll take another trip around the [...]
Picture yourself on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859. Edwin Drake, a retired railroad man, is months behind schedule and running out of money. His new idea to drill for oil using pipe to [...]
Saying thank you shouldn’t be difficult, but apparently it is. Research from O.C. Tanner suggests that 65 percent of American workers didn’t receive a single piece of recognition in the past year. I’ve studied and [...]
Sears’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing caught absolutely no one by surprise. The company has been on life support for years. You will see hundreds of reasons for Sears’s bankruptcy. All of them are at least [...]
My SHRM “Viewpoints” post about discipline in today's workplace opened with this: Progressive discipline, as practiced in most organizations, is legally defensible … and flawed in its logic. It is rooted in the decades-old mindset that treating people progressively [...]
Why is digital transformation still a big deal? It has been on the radar for at least five years, and yet the majority of CEO’s are still saying that projects or transformation initiatives are underway [...]
“What do you think of the new Nike ad campaign?” That’s the question I’ve received more than once since the company introduced Colin Kaepernick as a spokesperson. The polls suggest that I would be predisposed [...]
Seeing the need to change rarely results in people, organizations, or even industries taking action unless a crisis forces them to do so. Blockbuster didn’t offer a DVD-by-mail service until Netflix posed a legitimate danger. Kodak held [...]
Taxi companies in over 50 U.S. cities utilize a ride-hailing and payment app called Curb. Using it on a recent trip left me with one lingering question: What took them so long? It’s not as [...]
Dealing with change and disruption is one of the most important challenges every leader and organization faces today. In this blog, I join my friends and colleagues Larry Winget and Scott McKain to discuss how [...]
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” It pains my Southern Bible Belt upbringing to say this. Taken in isolation, there is a great deal of evidence that this well-known [...]