by Jamie Notter | Oct 27, 2017 | Agility, Change, Culture
I was debriefing some internal culture data with a client, and the CEO opened the conversation with his other senior leaders by referencing a book that Marshall Goldsmith wrote a few years ago: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Goldsmith’s book is focused on...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 20, 2017 | Announcements, Generational Diversity
So it was almost two years ago (January 2016) that we announced WorkXO to the world. It’s the company that Maddie and I created with Charlie Judy, a cutting-edge HR leader in Chicago. At WorkXO, the three of us created the Workplace Genome, which I feel (with admitted...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 18, 2017 | Collaboration, Leadership
I think we take management teams for granted, but given the power they have to impact both strategy and culture inside an organization, I think that’s a mistake. We should be intentional about them and, frankly, hold them to a higher standard. Here are some tips for...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 10, 2017 | Change, Culture, Innovation
Some of you know that in the last year I made the decision to personally switch to the metric system. I was originally inspired by a video from Dan Pink on this, and it was surprisingly easy for me to change little things in my life—on my own—to adopt the metric...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 3, 2017 | Culture
One of the reasons that I don’t particularly like “core values” exercises is that they bring culture up to a level that’s so high, it ends up ignoring some important contradictions inside your culture. For example, I’ve seen a lot of interesting private equity...
