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Earlier this year Walmart closed its incubator, Store 8, which Walmart claims helped the company accelerate its digital evolution. Most incubators have little impact, since they're not independent enough to act like a startup, and not integrated enough to transform the core.

In a Gallup survey, only 23% of respondents said their boss "motivates strong performance." But why would we expect managers to be motivators? I've been motivated by tough problems, brilliant colleagues, and the opportunity to have an impact, but never by a boss. What about

It's typically assumed that system-level #change requires top-level leadership. That's a problem, since the people who "own" the system, often resist root-and-branch change. So if you're not a CxO, you have a choice: whine about the system or learn to hack it. #Humanocracy

Hard to believe that things turned out this way

"Humanocracy: creating organisations as amazing as the people inside them" is a book that's had big impact on my change practice. A new updated version is due out in August 2025. In the meantime, here's a fantastic new sketchnote on a key principle from "Humanocracy": impact

Hey university bureaucrats, the NIH wants more for its money. Gary Hamel US universities spend nearly $80 billon per year on research, more than half of which comes from US taxpayers. It’s hardly surprising, then, that a Trumpian rule change by the National Institutes of Health

I understand the widespread antipathy for Germany's AfD party, but it's telling that in Sunday's election, AfD was the leading vote winner in the 25-34 year age bracket. With each passing generation, the percentage of young people making into the middle class is shrinking. This

As you may have discovered, bureaucrats hate exceptions, so as their ranks expand, exceptional performance becomes increasingly rare. Hence my maxim: "In any organization, the likelihood of exceptional performance is inversely related to the number of bureaucrats."

CAN ELON MUSK DO IT? It may seem impertinent to ask whether Elon Musk is up to the challenge of remaking the federal government. He is stupendously good at building things—like Tesla and SpaceX. And with the demolition of the USAID, he and his acolytes have also proven adept

Though the investor class is currently taking a beating, they did extraordinarily well over the past 30+ years. Those in the top 50% of households by net worth captured 98% of the $134 trillion in gains from the booming stock market. Those in the bottom half captured only 2

What do you think? Is the correlation between the increasing bureaucratization of government and the declining confidence in government competence mere coincidence? (With US agencies, there's now 1 manager or administrator for every 1.2 non-supervisory employees. The figure for

Allan Murray is @wsj's CEO whisperer. I had the chance to share a few thoughts for his latest "CEO Brief" which focuses on the recent, and long-overdue, enthusiasm for flattening org hierarchies. ceobrief.cmail20.com/t/d-e-shdklik-…

Who the heck is advising President Donald J. Trump? The proposed 25% tariff on iPhones seems very ill-advised. There are 1 to 1.5 million people employed by @apple's Chinese sub-contractors. Barring some sort of moonshot, there's no way to re-create Apple's supply chain infrastructure in the

One of my core tenets: "Resources are no match for resourcefulness." The June 1 Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bombers illustrates this maxim. More than 100 drones, hidden in trucks that were driven close to Russian airbases, hit 41 Russian bombers worth about $7 billion.

America needs a federal government that's better, not just smaller. DOGE mostly failed at both tasks. Here's what Michele Zanini and I think needs to be done to create a federal government that's bold, entrepreneurial and fast. project-syndicate.org/commentary/gut…

We need a government that's better, not just smaller. Elon Musk didn't know how to make that happen. (Hint, you don't cure obesity with an amputation. There's a better way to reinvigorate America's federal bureaucracies, and here it is: marketwatch.com/story/musk-and…

It was a pleasure to chat with Gallup's Global Practice Leader for Leadership Development, Vibhas Ratanjee. Here's what we talked about: forbes.com/sites/vibhasra…