Jamie Notter Blog
Self Awareness for Groups
I was working with a client last week that was immersed in a relatively difficult “who’s in charge” conversation. At one point in the conversation, one of the participants said (I’m paraphrasing here):I’ve noticed that we’re not answering the question Jamie just...
Do We Want Our Conclusions Challenged?
The spring issue of the Journal of Association Leadership is out, and it contains an article that summarizes ASAE & The Center’s Seven Measures of Success research report. I skimmed the article (having already read the report), but a sentence at the end caught my...
Denial
The cover story of Associations Now this month has a psychological bent to it: it’s about confronting your past in order to create a better future. The author, psychiatrist Keith Ablow, argues this is true for both individuals and organizations. I agree. Our brains...
Surprise them with Integrity
A Fast Company reporter was interviewing the CEO of JetBlue airways for a story about how the airline will recover from the bad press it received earlier this year as it stranded passengers for days during an ice storm. Delta and American stranded passengers, too, of...
Review of “Send”
Allow me to predict the future: You will either send or receive an email today. Okay, that wasn’t a stretch, but given how universal and voluminous email is in our world today, it seems odd that very few of us have been given any instruction about how best to use...
Review of "Send"
Allow me to predict the future: You will either send or receive an email today. Okay, that wasn’t a stretch, but given how universal and voluminous email is in our world today, it seems odd that very few of us have been given any instruction about how best to use...
Association Social Media Unconference
In case you haven’t already heard, a number of people in the “blogoclump” (association-related bloggers) are creating an “unconference” on social media in associations. The unconference will be: Free of charge! Held on Tuesday, June 5th, from 9 to 4:30 Located at ASAE...
Having Enough v. The Next Level
Here’s some more from Sutton’s book about assholes, that also ties into the post before that about the “next level.” Sutton has a section about “how to stop your inner jerk from getting out.” In it, he points to a problem inherent in our hypercompetitive, constant...
Conflict and the New Workplace
Thanks to Greg Melia for his excellent comments on my post about Good and Bad conflict. I continue to see people writing about it this way, and I’m beginning to think I need to start writing something about this (oh no! Not another book!). The most recent example is...