Thought leaders across the web

I will be interviewed on BNET’s new webcast show, “The Live One” on Monday, June 13th at 10AM pacific.  I plan to talk about Good Boss, Bad Boss and related stuff including Google’s recent research differentiating their best and worst managers (technical skills didn’t matter nearly as much as people skills, which surprised a lot [...]

I am blogging only intermittently as I am pretty focused on reading, talking to people, and generally fretting, worrying, and trying to structure the book on scaling constructive action that Huggy Rao and I are trying to write. I have been reading everything from psychological experiments on how different metaphors affect our perceptions and action, [...]

My old buddy from graduate school, Larry Ford, sent me an email this morning and told me to check out Doonesbury.  To my amazement, it features The No Asshole Rule, or as they call it “The No A——- Rule.”  Here is where you can go to see the complete cartoon. The cartoon does a great [...]

I wrote a short essay for the June Harvard Business Review on why it is so important for leaders to step down gracefully, whether they are leaving voluntarily or not.  It was inspired by some leaders I know who have not stepped down gracefully, and in the process, have done moderate damage to their organizations [...]

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of the power of small wins, and following Karl Weick’s classic article, have argued in Good Boss, Bad Boss and here at HBR that big hairy goals cause people to freak-out and freeze-up if they aren’t broken down into smaller stepping stones. Small [...]

Huh?  How did that happen? I was just poking around the web, and to my amazement, I ran into a book that just came out on March 29, 2011 called (see the Amazon link if you want): Good Boss, Bad Boss: Lessons from Effective and Not-So-Effective Managers. It written  by a consultant named Dr. Doreen [...]

I was delighted to get a copy of The No Asshole Rule translated into Slovenian this week.  It just tickles me the different ways that different cultures spin the cover and the language, from the crazy Polish cover to the beautiful red  Italian one.  Below is the cover of Slovenian version. I am wondering, is [...]

I have been getting emails now and then from the folks at CNN.com asking if I would like to do a guest column.  I have not been blogging anywhere much because I’ve been traveling a lot (I did a workshop on design thinking in Singapore a couple weeks back and just got from giving speeches [...]

Julia Kirby, the amazing editor from HBR, who among many other things, made The No Asshole Rule possible, just sent me this great note about a Forbes story on Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: The money quote from Groupon’s CEO: “Most CEOs will make stuff up about themselves to sound way smarter and cooler and people [...]

The new Stanford Magazine just arrived and it has a fantastic story about the d.school called “Sparks Fly” and a nice sidebar on the efforts by Rich Crandall and others to teach design thinking in schools via their K-12 initiative. I am biased as I have been involved with IDEO (which David also founded) for [...]