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Is sport such a poor metaphor for management?
February 23, 2017These days, when I sit down to write a blog post, there are two somewhat surprising threads running simultaneously through my...
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Put culture on the agenda and make it stick
November 5, 2015Whenever I make a public speech or work with a company on matters pertaining to building and sustaining a...
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Why culture should be top of mind
October 22, 2015Whenever I prepare a speech on a topic related to corporate culture, I pause to wonder why we do...
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Corporate culture is like a flower or a garden
October 15, 2015Last week, I found myself back in Grenoble to speak at an offsite meeting of Soitec, a world leader...
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Powerful stories about ‘putting people first’
June 4, 2015“We put our people first.” These days, such declarations have become somewhat banal, simply because they are so pervasive....
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How to Lose Gracefully: A Leadership Lesson from the Super Bowl
February 5, 2015This week finds me doing two things I never thought I would do. First, I watched an entire Super Bowl...
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Google’s plan to engineer better bosses (continued)
May 9, 2012As we saw previously, in early 2009, Google launched a vast internal study designed to determine and share the...
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Google’s interesting approach to HR research
May 4, 2012In March 2011, I read a New York Times article about management research at Google. Last week, I got...
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Brand stories
November 23, 2010Anthropologists contend that 70 percent of everything we learn is through stories. From an early age, stories are the...