Book Review: Do Lead

Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible by Les McKeown Do Book Co, 2014 In Chapter 3 of Humanize, Maddie and I take to task the authors, experts, and even “gurus” on the topic of leadership. As important as the concept is, we point out that...

Disciplined Clarity About Culture

Jack Dorsey, one of the Twitter Founders and now CEO at Square, sent a quick memo to his employees (that he also posted publicly on Medium) about something that may sound somewhat unimportant: using other people’s names to push ideas. In other words, coming to a...

Developing a Culture of Innovation

Guest post, by Amanda Kaiser Kodak, once a $10 billion dollar company, failed. Just when they needed to innovate the most, they focused on optimization instead. Innovation and optimization are at either ends of the spectrum. It’s hard to do both. The most innovative...

Culture Slides

Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their members. My part of the presentation was about...
Jamie Notter