by Jamie Notter | Feb 29, 2008 | Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
I haven’t read the article yet, but Ann Oliveri pointed me to the cover story in Fast Company magazine about Google and this great quote:"We argue about strategy and whether our products are good or bad, whether we’re building the right stuff. We...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 25, 2008 | Generational Diversity
One of my main mantras in the conversation about generational diversity has been the power of actually having conversations. The generalizations we can read about in books are all well and good, but the real power is in actually talking to people of different...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 20, 2008 | Individual Development, Leadership
Several cross-sections of my life seem to be intersecting this week around the theme of "paradox." Here are two of the dictionary.com definitions of the word, paradox:1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 18, 2008 | Leadership
I ran across this on Seth Godin’s blog:It’s really easy to insist that people read the friggin manual. It’s really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it or for not caring enough to pay...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 15, 2008 | Books and Reading
In talking about trust in my last post, I reminded myself that I had not yet done a full review of Stephen M.R. Covey’s book, The Speed of Trust. I did three blog posts that were each mini-reviews of parts of the book (here and here and here), but I have finally...