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Recent Articles from Chuck Blakeman
Why we're returning to the age of the business owner
Here's the historical perspective on why no one wants to be an executive and why 65 percent want to own their own business. We are going back where we came from ― business ownership.
Why time is the new money
Companies are realizing that when you give people back their time, they will make you more money. It seems counter-intuitive, but it's really quite logical.
Down with managers — up with success!
I'm aware of 100 or so companies that don't have managers (and there are easily a few thousand that I'm not aware of), and I've never heard them say they can't find good people.
Can you really have it all? The answer is …
Too many business owners go into business looking for an immediate Ozzie and Harriet "lifestyle business", assuming that they can step right in working four or five days a week. Success almost never comes that way. It was the willingness to go all in and be completely imbalanced on the front end that allows me to be imbalanced now in the direction of free time.
Why great leaders beat super managers every time
Semco gets hundreds of unsolicited resumes every month, and no one leaves. In the worst 10-year recession in Brazil's history, revenues grew 600 percent. And unlike Yahoo, Semco hasn't told people how or where to work for more than three decades.
This is where the work world is headed
The world continues to shift in favor of those who want to do something, contribute, create, innovate, make meaning and own their lives.
How to hire people you'll never have to manage
Most of our hiring practices were developed for the Industrial Age. But it turns out resumes are nearly useless, and our hiring process is backwards. Here are four steps to turn that legacy process around.
How to rehumanize your workplace
We are living at the intersection of two opposing work worlds, The Industrial Age, which is still strangely dominant in the front office of most companies; and the Participation Age, which is emerging as the new standard for how we work.
How to be a great leader? Don't make decisions for others
Leaders rarely make decisions for others. Managers make decisions for others (and dehumanize them in the process).
How to write a great mission statement
Is your mission statement about you or your customer? Are you trying to sound smart, sophisticated and complex?
How to build a better company without managers
Managers were invented just over a century ago. Leaders have been around for thousands of years. We conflate the two, when in fact they are radically different.
Why it's time to get rid of your managers
Companies without managers are the present and future of work. In the emerging work world of the Participation Age, the most successful ones will do away with managers completely.
