by Jamie Notter | Oct 27, 2011 | Announcements, Humanize
Maddie and I were recently interviewed by George Breden of TMA Resources about our book, Humanize. George does a weekly video news show for TMA Resources, called Association Tech News. This week’s edition includes a brief clip from the interview, but they also...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 25, 2011 | Leadership
Steve Drake pointed me to an interesting blog post based on some of the material from the most recent Steve Jobs biography. Apparently Jobs thought it was a problem when CEOs become too focused on sales: I have my own theory about why the decline happens at companies...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 21, 2011 | Books and Reading, Humanize
In case you missed it, I got the cover on the September/October issue of Associations Now magazine with an article about the main concepts in Humanize. “We Are Not Machines” makes the basic argument for creating more human organizations, which is quite...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 18, 2011 | Humanize
Let’s say you’re on the beach building a sand castle. It’s a nice sunny day, and you build quite a masterpiece with towers and moats and walls (heck, it can have a working drawbridge for all I care, because this is just a metaphor after all). Then a...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 13, 2011 | Change, Humanize, Managing People
Everybody hates organizational silos. They are a problem. They get in the way. They need to be “busted.” And to some extent, I agree. The way our different departments seem to erect walls separating them from each other can definitely cause problems. What...