How to Protect an Asshole
This story about Holland & Knight documents how the leader of a large law firm protected — and then promoted — a partner with a
August 17, 2006
This story about Holland & Knight documents how the leader of a large law firm protected — and then promoted — a partner with a
“The No Asshole Rule” focuses on how traditional organizations can –- and do –- enforce norms that stop people from acting like demeaning jerks. But,
I’ve spent much of the summer working with a great team to design a new course called Clicks-n-Bricks: Creating Mass Market Experiences, the lead-off in a
I’ve been delighted with how much response there has been to Lovaglia’s Law, and how thoughtful many of the comments have been made on this
The importance of identifying and testing the assumptions that determine how organizations and technologies are designed sounds so obvious – yet we’ve learned that, when
I mentioned Rakesh Khurana’s book Searching for a Corporate Savior in my last post. After I wrote it, I realized that Rakesh may have found
Today’s Wall Street Journal contains an entertaining story about the recent financial setbacks suffered by hedge fund manager Robert Chapman. It makes for good reading,
I just got a lovely note from Shawn Callahan, who is the founding director of an Australian firm called Anecdote, which works with companies on
Michael Lovaglia is a Professor and Department Chair in the Sociology Department at the Iowa. Michael wrote Jeff Peffer and me a charming and insightful
Dennis Howlett tells a great story on his blog AccMan Pro about a production director who had the courage – and skill – stand-up to
Diego Rodriguez and I had good fun talking at AlwaysOn about our d.school course on Creating Infectious Action yesterday, and the audience — both online
Bruce Nussbaum and Jessie Scanlon from BusinessWeek invited me to write something on what it takes to do effective brainstorming after they saw my post