Jamie Notter Blog
Mood and Creativity
Lisa Junker (ASAE & The Center staff and Acronym blogger) commented on my last post about the “inner work life” article in HBR, pointing to another specific point in the article:I was especially interested in Amabile and Kramer's findings about the ways that...
What About Me?
Association Forum has an article this month in the "Trend Watch" column that talks about future implications for associations. According to the author, two big trends will impact everything: generational transition and technology transformation. Okay. But in...
Understanding Inner Work Life
As promised, here is some more about psychology and business from the Harvard Business Review article by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer about “inner work life.” The article follows in the footsteps of Goleman and his emotional intelligence work by backing up their...
Getting Past the Easy Part
Thanks to Chris Bailey for linking to my recent post quoting the poet David Whyte. I included that quote because the word “conversation” had leapt out at me. Interestingly, it was the word “belong” that jumped out for Chris.When an actual spirit of belonging is...
Generalizing about Generations
An interesting little conversation has developed in the blogoclump about the Millennial generation. It started when Lisa Junker posted a letter from Brynn Grumstrup Slate, a millennial reader of Associations Now, who was commenting on the article about Millennials...
Comment of the Week
David Gammel posted a wise (and laugh-out-loud) comment on one of BMart's recent posts. Ben wrote up a great primer for new bloggers to the 'clump on how to be, well, actually PART of the 'clump. Bottom line: read what others write, talk about it, and link to it. So...
So, How Does That Make You Feel?
Sometimes I lament to clients that I have to fight against the reputation of being “touchy-feely” in my work. Once classified as touchy-feely, I can lose the respect of many in the business world. And, for the record, I’ve never sung Kumbaya at the end of one of my...
The Power of Language and Conversation
There is a one-page interview with poet David Whyte in HBR in May. Whyte uses poetry to address leadership and business issues in corporation. He said he was initially invited to do corporate work after giving a talk about poetry and an executive said, “The language...
Mark Your Calendars: Springtime is Here
In two weeks I will be speaking at ASAE & The Center’s annual Springtime conference. My session, which will run twice during the morning educational sessions, is titled “Better Conflict Conversations.” I only have 75 minutes with this one, but I promise to make it...