Jamie Notter Blog
Don’t Ignore the Contradictions In Your 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...
What is Culture Analytics
In the context of our work, culture analytics is the science of using workplace culture data to generate meaningful actions that improve organizational results, and it is the heart of what we do at Human Workplaces. When we created the Workplace Genome, with Charlie...
Introducing WorkXO
So we've already been mentioning it here and there over the last several weeks, but I want to officially announce that Maddie Grant and I are joining forces with HR superstar Charlie Judy to form a new consulting company, WorkXO. Here's our vision and mission: We know...
Workplace Intelligence
With all the talk of "big data," I'm always amazed at the opportunities we squander to work with small data. I was working with a client recently that has a really strong culture. They've been working very hard at it for more than a year now, because they actually had...
Do You Really Know What Drives Your Success?
I've made the point for some time now that your culture should, ideally, be aligned with what drives your success. Lots of companies get lots of attention for how cool they are by having game rooms or beer taps, and that's all fine with me--but it doesn't excuse you...
Making It Real
Encourage Healthy Eating Habits Healthy eating is essential to a child's well-being. Children who are overweight are at risk for chronic health problems. The Weight-control Information Network (WIN), a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and...
2015 Year End
Encourage Healthy Eating Habits Healthy eating is essential to a child's well-being. Children who are overweight are at risk for chronic health problems. The Weight-control Information Network (WIN), a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and...
Start-Ups Now Setting Themselves Apart with Culture
Check out the NYT article about the Amazon-competitor, Jet.com. To be honest, their ubiquitous commercials with people's heads exploding in purple dust were really annoying to me, but maybe I'll take a second look now that I've learned about their culture: They...
You’re Doing Performance Reviews Wrong
I know that's a blanket statement, and heck, I don't even actually know what system YOU are using, right? But this is one of the areas in organizations where everyone does it the way everyone else does it, DESPITE significant research suggesting what we're doing isn't...