by Jamie Notter | Jan 21, 2014 | Culture, Managing People
Netflix has received a good amount of attention on its culture, driven primarily by the incredible viral success of its slide deck on culture, which CEO Reed Hastings published several years ago. I have a chapter devoted to Netflix in my culture ebook, along with a...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 20, 2014 | Humanize, Managing People
I read about an interesting study in HBR that concludes that noncompete agreements (standard in many employment contracts) can actually stifle performance. In short, knowing that they are restricted in future opportunities lowers employees’ motivation and desire...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 17, 2014 | Books and Reading, Social Media
This edition of the Friday quote is not from Humanize–it’s from Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web, by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. This book came out in 2010 (a lifetime ago in social media years), and...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 16, 2014 | Culture, Managing People
Last April I posted about what I think is a misguided obsession, sometimes, with proof. Well, I’m starting to get bothered again, and this time it is in the context over the debate about the effectiveness of the “open office.” According to one...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 15, 2014 | Announcements, Culture
I am proud to have made it in the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy business for 2014. This list is generated by an organization called Trust Across America-Trust Around the World, and they’ve been compiling the list for several years now. Apparently this...