by Jamie Notter | May 26, 2015 | Announcements, Culture, Managing People
This Thursday, May 28th, at 1pm ET we will convene the next #CultureChat session, and this month’s focus will be on hierarchy. Specifically, we’ll be digging into something that has emerged as a bit of a hot topic these days: Holacracy. In case you...
by Jamie Notter | May 20, 2015 | Change, Generational Diversity, Leadership
I am one of many authors and bloggers these days who are writing about challenges to the traditional, command-and-control approach to management. And I will continue to do so, because I think the evidence is compelling and the rewards are significant. But it is...
by Jamie Notter | May 12, 2015 | Change, Culture, Managing People
I wrote a few months ago about Zappos’ experiment with Holacracy, a system of management that discards the traditional hierarchy in favor of a flexible and dynamic one where employees are more responsible for managing themselves. Zappos (1,500+ employees) is the...
by Jamie Notter | May 5, 2015 | Change, Generational Diversity, Truth
Maddie and I delivered an internal webinar on When Millennials Take Over to a very large, global organization last week. The organizers read the book in order to develop a set of interview questions that were integrated into the presentation, and one of them was: How...
by Jamie Notter | May 4, 2015 | Change, Culture
I was at a conference last week, and in one of the sessions we talked about some of the organizations that I call the “culture cool kids”: Netflix, Zappos, Southwest, Google, Apple, etc. These organizations are frequently mentioned in the press, and I see...
