by Carol Sanford | Oct 22, 2010 | Business Development
Steve Denning offered some additional reflections to follow up on the book review of The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. 1. What is the major thing managers will have to change to become radical? Radical...
by Carol Sanford | Oct 20, 2010 | Business Development
Steve Denning is radical about a new form a management. Actually it’s not that new an idea. It is just rare. By “not so new,” I mean it was the way craftsman succeeded for centuries. They were constantly innovating and linking every decision and action to the impact...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 17, 2010 | Impact Investing
Interview with Chip Conley, Founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow This week is about new ways to understanding motivation in business. Monday’s blog surveyed the new books on the subject....
by Carol Sanford | Sep 15, 2010 | Game-Changing Entrepreneurs
Chip Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, a chain of boutique hotels that have thrived in the downturn when the rest of the industry is in a death grip. He is also a “psychologist”. Well, at least he is very connected to humanist psychologist,...
by Carol Sanford | Sep 13, 2010 | Business Development
The traditional motivation assumption is that life is about money, position or status relative to others and power over others, or some combination of these. This has led businesses to wide spread design of productivity programs and pay and progression systems that...