Wal-Mart Knocks Off the Girl Scouts

August 3, 2009

Tweet (Welcome MacLeans Readers… Please join the conversation! ) Just when you think your opinion about Wal-mart might be changing… Just when you think that maybe, just maybe, Wal-mart was learning to be a better citizen… Wal-mart turns around and does something really … despicable. It’s not discriminating against women, strong-arming suppliers, polluting neighborhoods or […]

Read the full article →

When the Organization Wears its Brand

July 31, 2009

Tweet The organization itself can wear the brand — it isn’t just the employees’ who can “wear the brand”. The organization’s physical being can (and should) express its brand and purpose. When an organization expresses its purpose through the way it is physically situating itself, I like to think of it as “whereing” the brand. […]

Read the full article →

BlogHer 09: Does Swag Pervert the Purpose?

July 27, 2009

Tweet Walking into my office this morning, I tripped over a ‘rubber bracelet cum flash drive’ that was part of the swag I brought back with me from Chicago and the 2009 BlogHer. That clumsy move plus a few friends’ Tweets about supposedly free swag costing them money to ship home, made me wonder about […]

Read the full article →

Authenticity: Is there an app for that?

July 20, 2009

Tweet A few weeks ago, I finally gave up  my shiny-pink Motorola phone personalized with Hello Kitty stickers, and moved to the lbd of digital tools. Yes, I bought an iPhone. My iPhone purchase completed a long, slow and ultimately satisfying move from anything PC & Microsoft to all things Apple & Google, a move […]

Read the full article →

5 Reasons why Management Professors should be reading blogs

July 16, 2009

Tweet Very few management professors read blogs about management, leadership, strategy or organizations. I have no hard data, no scientific survey, to support this claim, but I know it’s true. As I’ve talked with colleagues over the last two years about this blog, about other blogs that I learn from, about blogs as a communication […]

Read the full article →

Peek inside an Authentic Organization: Blogging at Berrett-Koehler

July 14, 2009

Tweet Years of following industries that create culture have left me with a special fondness for book publishers. Year after year, season after season, page after page, book publishers create objects that convey what I love most — great ideas. Increasingly, book publishers do this in an embattled industry, towards a customer base with a […]

Read the full article →

Reflective Executives, Where are you hiding?

July 9, 2009

Tweet One of my blogging e-mentors asked “If you had one question about blogging that you could have answered with a magic wand, what would that question be?” I’m a big fan of magic wand questions— I use them all the time with my kids, and so I took the bait. My one question? Where […]

Read the full article →

Sarah Palin Reads AuthenticOrganizations.com!?

July 3, 2009

Tweet An amazing discovery! Someone from Wasilla (Alaska) reads AuthenticOrganizations.com! And not just “lands on the page”. Oh, no. We’re talkin’ 3 pageviews and 1.27 minutes online— in one visit alone! Oh, the modern miracle that is Google Analytics. I was showing an academic-colleague-who-wants-to-learn-to-blog how to use Google Analytics to gather some nifty data on […]

Read the full article →

Resources for Authenticity: Being vs. Understanding

June 30, 2009

Tweet What resources can organizations draw on to create and sustain an authentic sense of “who they are”? My class with the Darden EMBA students on Saturday danced around the questions of “How do organizations ‘source’ their identity? and “How do organizations sustain their authenticity?” Even though we had a chance to discuss many other […]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →