by Jamie Notter | May 17, 2018 | Agility, Change, Culture
I’m working with several clients right now on the “Playbook” stage of our culture consulting work. This is the part where the rubber meets the road—where they have to develop a list of things they are going to propose to management that will move their culture in a...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 12, 2018 | Agility, Change, Managing People
I’ve noticed an interesting pattern in some of the Workplace Genome data of some of my consulting clients lately: Middle managers experience culture as less futurist than BOTH the people above them in the hierarchy, and the people below them. Think about that....
by Jamie Notter | Feb 5, 2018 | Agility, Change, Culture, Transparency
I was talking the other day to a leader in an organization whose culture was fairly traditionally “hierarchical.” There was a clear hierarchy there, and people had it on their radar that you shouldn’t do things or say things unless someone above you in the chain...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 19, 2018 | Agility, Innovation, Transparency
I had two remarkably similar conversations last week with two organizations that could not be more different from each other. One was a large, global corporation, and the other was a small nonprofit, but they were both struggling with the same issue: not enough time....
by Jamie Notter | Nov 16, 2017 | Agility, Innovation
No matter what kind of job you have, I’ll bet that a large percentage of your work day is devoted to one, single activity: Coming up with an answer or a solution to a problem you face. That’s what we do. We come up with answers. We figure out how we are going to sell...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 10, 2017 | Agility, Consulting, Culture
I love data. I’m a cyclist, and in the group of friends I ride with, I’m known as “stats,” because I am always the one to report on our average speed and the number of meters we climbed, etc. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that when it comes to culture, I do like the...
