Squidoo Lenses

Seth Godin’s blog has become one of my favorites lately, and in getting back in touch with all things Godin, I have also taken another look at Squidoo. Godin created Squidoo, and it is a very large collection of “lenses” on a huge variety of topics. Basically, each...

Perception versus Reality

Here is some more from that Sloan article that talks about good conflict and bad conflict. Although I don’t think their distinction between “task” and “relationship” conflict was clear enough, that wasn’t the main point of the article. Most of it was about perceptions...

Good Conflict and Bad Conflict

I am seeing more and more about conflict in the mainstream business press, which is a good thing. Specifically, a popular dichotomy is emerging: there is good conflict and bad conflict. The “good” conflict is typically very rational. Some call it “task” conflict and...

Changing Culture

There is a nice piece about the strength of organizational culture in the Sloan Management Review. Researchers looked at “spinoff” companies to see if they could measure corporate culture and whether the spinoff companies had cultures that were different from the...
Jamie Notter