This post is in response to The New Workplace is Agile, and Nonstop. Can you keep up? Published by Quentin Hardy in the November 25, 2016 issue of the New York Times. …
What Good is Your Strategy if You Can’t Find It?
In the 1960s, academics like Michael Porter at Harvard Business School and Bill Bain at BCG (and later Bain) helped to define the idea of corporate strategy. From that humble …
Managing Knowledge Work (and Knowledge Workers)
What’s the first thing that you do when you start work each morning? Do you open your email and scan through the newest deposits into your queue? Or hop onto …
An Enterprise Perspective on the Productivity Challenge
If you aren’t a macro-economist, you could be forgiven for missing a recent trend in the U.S. economy: declining growth in productivity. That’s right: you as an American employee are …
The verdict is in: Performance reviews are out. What will replace them?
Traditional performance management — the annual exercise of a manager reviewing the contributions of his or her employees and then sitting down with each for a taxing conversation — is dead. R.I.P. Last week, …
The Importance of Understanding Your Network: A Lesson from Reddit
In early July, Reddit made headlines when its large user-run online community revolted in response to Reddit leadership’s decision to fire a key administrative employee. Though Reddit issued several formal …