The scale and size of bureaucracies, which once made our companies strong and prosperous, are now liabilities in this era of constant change. We are asked daily to reinvent the future but to do so inside a culture of work that is deeply broken. Today...
“We have come to know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” —Oscar Wilde The need for a world of profit with better purpose is explained by Mark Carney, ex-Governor of the Bank of Canada, in Value(s): Building a Better World for Us All...
In Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them (2020), Gary Hamel, an American management consultant considered one of the world’s most iconoclastic business thinkers, makes the case for distinguishing between bureaucracy (the features of which are stratification, specialization, formalization, and routinization, which...
I love mariachi music. This love began on a warm summer evening in July 1966 on La Plaza de Garibaldi in Mexico City where I went for dinner with my Spanish teacher. The plaza was surrounded by small Mexican restaurants while dozens of mariachi bands...
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln In, 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything, Mauro Guillén, sociologist and Director of the Cambridge Judge Business School at Cambridge University, describes how he sees...
In the Western “True Grit” (1969), John Wayne, in the role of a drunken, hard-nosed U.S. marshal, helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory. The teenage girl, Mattie Ross, recruits tough old marshal “Rooster” Cogburn because he has “grit” and...
Aspiration and inspiration are two different words with considerable difference in meaning although they sound quite similar. Aspiration refers to hope and ambition. We all have dreams about the future. These are our aspirations. Inspiration, on the other hand, refers to the urge to feel...
Hidden biases are resident in each one of us and also embedded within governance, decision-making systems, and operational processes across organizations. In The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams, Pamela Fuller writes that left unchecked, hidden bias...
What do Georgetown University, Fordham University, Boston College, Canisius College, Gonzaga University, Loyola University, Marquette University, and Santa Clara University – all major U.S. learning institutions – have in common? They are all led by Jesuits. And who are the Jesuits? The Society of Jesus is...
The world is currently dealing with COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that is negatively influencing our social and business world. Despite the negative effects of this pandemic, there is much to learn about how we team members, team leaders, and companies can effectively weather the storm...