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"The Geek Way" was named one of the best books of the year by TheEconomist Newspaper Limited


I think I'm supposed

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Attention NoCal geeks:

Next Thursday evening (Dec. 14) I'm talking with Silicon Valley pioneer Carl Bass
about my new book "The Geek Way" at

In The Wall Street Journal, Frank Rose's review of "The Geek Way" is the kind of review an author dreams of because:

1) He

Brittle, defensive companies are no April Fool's Day joke. My new post describes how they're to be expected when companies and their leaders

In my latest post I join the chorus of folk now revisiting and downgrading Jack Welch's reputation. My point is that his leadership

The late Chris Argyris is the most important management thinker you've never heard of. In my latest post I use his ideas to

Why have so many GE alums been struggling as CEOs lately? As I explain in my latest post, a big reason is that

Is vulnerability at work kryptonite for cooperation, or a catalyst for innovation and agility? In my latest post I start to explain why

This post explains the management philosophy that got Microsoft so jammed up in the 1st decade of the 21st century.

The next post

If you're interested in putting Generative AI to work, you don't want to miss the Workhelix launch webinar on this very topic, featuring

What happens when a company relentlessly focuses on WINNING? It encourages dominance games, which are a losing strategy. My latest:

This picture of an orangutan fishing is only tenuously related to the contents of my latest blog, but I couldn't resist including it.

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In my latest for the 'stack I continue trashing the dominant business leadership philosophy of the late 20th c. (Take control! Stay positive!

All social vertebrates have dominance hierarchies (i.e. pecking orders). But we humans have another way to the top; in addition to dominance, we

This post: how Microsoft became "something bloated and bureaucracy-laden, with an internal culture that unintentionally rewards managers who strangle innovative ideas"

Next one: how

Why do we humans have this odd kind of status called "prestige?" Because it tells us who to learn from. I explain this

My tour of duty as the inaugural visiting fellow in Google's Technology and Society group recently ended, and I'd like to do a

WEBINAR ALERT!!

Tomorrow (Weds, May 22) at 2 pm Eastern, join me, my Workhelix cofounders Erik Brynjolfsson and James Milin, and McKinsey & Company

This is an absolutely stinging editorial by Silicon Valley legend Reid Hoffman
(who I'm proud to call a friend) demolishing the arguments of