In “The Future of Management” Gary Hamel argued that “Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology that has largely stopped evolving, and that’s not good.” This
We're at the end of an eight-year period, which was marked in the beginning by the demise of Enron and marked at the end by the demise of Lehman Brothers. During that near decade, the quasi-religious mantra of business was shareholder value: Focus on performance and on performance alone. That's...
Elad Gil, head of Geo at Twitter, has a great new post on Tech Crunch, "The 5 Myths of Building A Great Mobile Team." Gil, who has experience building teams at Google and a handful of startups, hammers on the need to hire great engineers who can be flexible as their tasks change. That tagline for...
What do kids know about creating a company anyway? Well, 3 24-yr old Brown University ('08) grads didn't know how to do it the "right" way, so they did it their way.
A 163yr old privately held 7th generation 19th & 20th Century industrial “brown box” packaging company transforms itself into a 21st Century Consumer and Design focused company by inno
Inspired by Gary Hamel's "The Future of Management", I facilitated the transformation of one of my company's business units from a 20th century hierarchical
Clearly, you've given this trust thing some thought. We're off to a good start with these 15 tweets. I'm seeing at least four qualities that run as themes throughout this list: Transparency Responsiveness Consistency Courtesy One idea that hasn't been put forward yet is something that Whole Foods...
We have a winner! We’re happy to announce Dr. Ellen Weber as the winner of our first-ever Tweet a Hack contest, which challenged you to offer up your bold ideas for “ taking the work out of work ” in 140 characters or less. The winning Hack Tweet? Host a Celebration of Innovation twice yearly,...
You may think this company is nuts! They have people who make it work but they aren't employees and they don't make salaries. They have presence in five cities but they don't have a single office.