By Rod Collins Over three days from February 14 – 16, 2011, the American public was introduced to the amazing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) during the telecast of the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge, when IBM’s Watson faced off against Ken…
Scaling Culture — part three
By Josh Levine The third post in a series exploring the why, when, and how of managing company culture in a growth organization by Josh Levine. How To Keep Culture From Going Awry In my first post I discussed my research into…
Scaling Culture — part two
by Josh Levine This article is second in a series exploring the why, when, and how of managing company culture in growth organizations by Josh Levine. The Moment It All Goes Wrong If you’ve ever had to work with another human,…
Scaling Culture — part one
by Josh Levine This article is first in a series exploring the why, when, and how of managing company culture in growth organizations by Josh Levine. Why It’s So Hard to Scale Company Culture Sex in stairwells, absentee management, and outright racism. There’s…
Preview Chapter 5: Recognition
by Shelby Jones GREAT MONDAYS: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love by Josh Levine There are many types of recognition companies use to encourage positive behaviors. I wanted to see if I could make sense of them all. Here’s…
Do Companies that Mimic Nature Flourish Financially?
By Dawna Jones Back in the early 1990’s investment advisor Joseph (Jay) Bragdon noticed the emergence of a new genre of company that was more adept at learning and more profitable than the corporate mainstream. Rather than following the corporate…
Digital Transformation – Part VI: An Evolutionary Leap in Human Intelligence
By Rod Collins “May you live in interesting times,” is an old English expression whose enigmatic meaning can make people wonder whether they’ve been offered a blessing or a curse. Regardless of the apparent well-wisher’s intentions, interesting times are oftentimes…
Moving from a Controlling Mindset to Releasing Human Potential
By Dawna Jones I am not the same person I was six months much less nine years ago. The journey to releasing my own potential began decades ago but it accelerated rapidly when my business crashed hard nine years ago.…
Digital Transformation – Part IV: The Two Big Jobs To Be Done
By Rod Collins One of Peter Drucker’s most popular and enduring business quotes is, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” This advice has never been truer than it is today as the technologies of digital…
Digital Transformation – Part V: Blockchain May Be the Future of IT
By Rod Collins Morning Star is not your usual company. That’s because the 400-person California-based agribusiness has no supervisors. Rather than relying on the intelligence of an elite few, Morning Star is a highly successful self-managing peer-to-peer network that has…