Business Strategy

When people in organizations talk about their incentive systems, inevitably the conversation involves compensation.  Often, it stops there. But the wonderful work of Steve Kerr and others demonstrates that many things in your incentive system… Read more »

Research on how well people can predict the future comes to a resounding conclusion:  not well.  Asking “What will happen to me?” in a future situation misses the point. Instead, it’s much more fruitful to… Read more »

When the top leadership of an organization changes, boards often make decisions that seem sensible, but which may not reflect the pattern that made a company successful to begin with.  A major reason is that… Read more »

If the above reference sounds obscure, it’s from an old Rogers & Hammerstein musical that I was taken to as a child and every June, I simply cannot get it out of my head. It’s… Read more »

Speculating about what’s next for the workplace has become quite the hobby. Will it be place-bound or not? Will AI take jobs or create new ones? How can we scale systems but retain our humanity? … Read more »

Well over 1,000 participants joined in live for my Coaching.com session, “The Permissionless Organization Has Arrived.”  Many asked wonderful questions that we didn’t have time to get to in the session.  Here are a select… Read more »

We’ve been talking a lot about bubbles this month. An economic bubble happens when the market assigns a value to an asset that is disconnected from its true economic value. Mortgage CDO’s. Tulips. Dotcoms. You… Read more »

As economist Carlota Perez so eloquently lays out, systemic changes in technologies always lead to systemic changes in society. The winners in an old regime become the losers in a new one. With many predicting… Read more »

Paul LeBlanc, in his thought-provoking book “Broken,” shows how scaling removes humanity from many of our systems of care. AI might be the great unlock that would allow us to flood our systems with quality… Read more »

“The Children of Men” is a dystopian 1992 novel by P. D. James about a world in 2021 when humanity is experiencing mass infertility. While we seem to have so far avoided such a dramatic… Read more »

For humans to create high-performing teams, traditional assumptions are that it takes a long time and goes through a predictable process (forming, storming, norming and performing).  But in many of today’s most vital activities, time… Read more »

Is 2024 going to be remembered as the year CHRO’s got a seat at the table?  In the way that things seem to work post-pandemic, it’s wild to remember that just a month ago the… Read more »