For the past few weeks I have been exploring some themes around innovation (in the post for why failure is a competitive advantage and the post that talks about how to turn failure into a competitive advantage), and I wanted to continue on that track
A few weeks ago, I wrote about “Why Failure Is The Best Advantage.” We have long been taught to avoid and run from failure, but a big part of the future of work is embracing failure. The benefits of doing so: increases innovation, improves engagement,
This is going to be a two-part post. In part 1, I will explore why failure can be a powerful competitive advantage, and in part 2, I will explore how to leverage failure as a competitive advantage. When I was growing up, I was always
I’m very proud to share some exciting news about the FOWC (Future of Work Community). We have grown quite a bit over the past few months and now have over 30 global brands from around the world as members. These are some of the world’s
In 2011, Gary Hamel wrote a seminal article called First Let’s Fire All the Managers where he explores the challenges with modern management and hierarchy. These include large overhead costs, poor decision making, sluggishness due to bureaucracy, and employee disengagement and lack of empowerment. Managers have long been
You may be familiar with the famous Netflix Culture Deck that the company released a few years ago — it now has over 11 million views on Slideshare. Today Linkedin is debuting their own culture deck called SHIFT. It provides some great insights into the inner workings
When it came to our work lives, we historically haven’t had much choice around how we actually worked. Some of us may have picked the companies we want to be a part of, but aside from that we all had to follow the “rules” set
At most organizations around the world decisions on how we work follow a very top down chain of command. The executives or key stakeholders that sit at the top of our organizations decide everything including how we work, what we work on, what we wear, who
The Future of Work was released in September of 2014; and the whole point of the book is to explore how employees of the future will work, how managers of the future will lead, and how organizations of the future will be structured. I’m a
Imagine you show up to work one day and someone asks you if you are interested in running with an idea that you have — “sure,” you say. You are then given a little red box — inside you find a pre-paid credit card for $1,000, some notebooks,
