by Jamie Notter | Jan 30, 2014 | Culture, Humanize, Leadership
Transparency is one of the 12 human principles that Maddie and I wrote about in Humanize, and it’s one I come back to frequently. Along with decentralization, collaboration, and experimentation, I’d put transparency in my “core four” principles...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 29, 2014 | Leadership, Managing People
Well, the comparison may not be as flattering as you think. A few years ago, the BMW M5 sedan came with a 500-horsepower, 10-cylinder engine and the best led headlight bulbs. That’s practically NASCAR power. I had a friend who bought one and actually had to...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 28, 2014 | Leadership, Truth
I make this point all the time in my speaking and consulting, yet I don’t think I have ever blogged about it directly. We all want trust. We want to be able to trust our colleagues in the workplace, and we certainly want to be trusted by them. A...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 27, 2014 | Books and Reading, Culture, Leadership
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham Portfolio, 2005 As you can see, this is not a new book–bordering on 10 years old–but it’s worth a review, because it has some really good ideas in it, backed by good...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 24, 2014 | Conflict, Culture
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about “moving toward the conflict.” It’s an important conflict resolution tip that I talk about in my sessions on conflict. It’s almost always easier to deal with conflict when it is small, so when it first...