Set Your People Free

In Gary Hamel's book, he suggests three areas on which to focus when creating a more human organization, and one of them is "too much management, too little freedom." As I said in my previous post, most people will agree with that statement at the high...

Leadership is Not Comfortable

I said last week that I would "push back" against some of the things I learned at ASAE & The Center's CEO Symposium. There were times during the presentations where I felt the speakers made some generically accurate statements, yet overlooked some...

Pithy Quotes that Actually Suck

Maddie shared an interesting opinion on Twitter the other day: It's true there might be a bit too many people putting up pithy quotes on Twitter. It can be irritating. But as I think about it, SOME of the quotes on Twitter are inspiring to me. So what's the...

Buzz 09

I don't normally do a whole lot of promotional blog posts. I certainly mention speaking engagements that I have and sure I like to plug the events that friends of mine are doing, though obviously I only plug them when I think they are valuable. But I want to draw...
Jamie Notter