The CIO is Dead: Long Live the CIO.

Management pundits have been predicting the imminent demise of the CIO role for years. Their premise seems to be that technology has become such an integral and mainstream part of doing business that it is no longer necessary or desirable to have this function managed separately from the other areas of the business. Many companies [...]

Squeezed in the Middle: Do Middle Managers (Still) Matter?

Why do middle managers get such a bad rap? Like Rodney Dangerfield, we don’t get much respect. Both senior management above us and the folks working for us think they know how to do our jobs better than we do. And it’s not an easy act to pull off. Done right, middle management fills the [...]

What Do You Believe In?

I know it’s a small world out there, so many of you have probably heard of Hugh McLeod and one of his most memorable phrases/cartoons:

Nonetheless, without being reminded from time to time it’s easy to forget how fundamental the search for meaning, for “something to believe in”, is to the decisions that we make [...]

Who wants a Seven-Day Weekend?

Ricardo Semler has been writing about the unusual way his company thinks about work for almost 20 years. His most recent book, The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works, was published in 2003, but he continues to travel around the world letting people in on the secrets behind [...]