Management

Still haven’t gotten around to making your new year’s resolutions?  The Pink Blog is here to help. I asked my friend, Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor, to do the work for us — and offer up a few resolutions to help us work better and innovate faster in 2011. The three suggestions listed below come […]

Who are these two guys — and what can they teach you about innovation? The answer is in this month’s Sunday Telegraph column.

In this month’s Sunday Telegraph column, I strap on my spelunking gear and explore the most feedback-deprived cave in our civilization: The modern workplace.  While the rest of our lives are rich in feedback — just look at the Tweet counter for this post or listen for the little sound your phone makes when you […]

Lots of people spend lots of money on business school — and it’s often a worthy investment. You can learn new skills, broaden your network, and postpone reality for two years. But I’ve always thought about offering a far cheaper business credential — enduring advice for managers of any kind that I call The Four-Word […]

Over at the HBR blog, Julia Kirby offers up an innovation that is brilliant (and that I wish I’d thought of myself.)  You know how each year the MacArthur Foundation awards those famous genius grants? How about if organizations did something similar? In a great post, Julia lays out the evidence that unstructured time and […]

Even though I’ve worked for myself for 13 years, I’ve had plenty of bosses in my life. Only two were awful (and you know who you are.) Most were generally fine. But none was truly amazing. In my younger days, I suspected that this rampant okay-ness was because these folks had no idea how to […]

In this month’s Sunday Telegraph column, I explore vacations through the lens of Netflix, Inc., which has taken a peculiar approach to paid holidays. At Netflix salaried employees (though not hourly workers) can take all the vacation they want — whenever they want to take it.  Somehow it works. (More: Check out Netflix CEO Reed […]

In this month’s Sunday Telegraph column, I look a the bizarre, distancing, and vaguely incoherent dialect we often use in business. Then I lay down a challenge: For the next seven days, don’t say anything to your boss, your staff, your teammate, your supplier or your customer that you wouldn’t say to your spouse or […]

Tom Peters calls it “the pursuit of wow.” Seth Godin calls it being “remarkable.” None of us do it enough — which is why it’s so spectacular when we see it in action. Case in point: Sunday night at the J.W. Marriott in Phoenix. I’ve got a letter to mail, but no stamps. So I go […]

On Saturday, the first issue of the newly redesigned Bloomberg Businessweek hit the mailbox here at Pink, Inc, world headquarters. The magazine looks great — smart, simple, and forward-looking. Alas, according to today’s Times, the design of some of the magazine’s work practices are almost the mirror opposite — rigid, retrograde, and bizarrely controlling. Here’s […]