The Secret to Better Leadership

I attended a session this week about leadership development in the association world. We talked about different leadership styles, and the need to adapt your style to fit the context, and then we talked about leadership development programs for volunteers. The...

Every Answer Has a Down Side

Wyatt Jenkins, a VP at Shuttestock, wrote a great HBR blog post about A/B testing and creating a culture of experimentation. In it, he makes an important point that is not made enough in all the books and blog posts that are promoting new and better ways to lead and...

One of My Favorite Consulting Questions

“So how does that show up here?” I ask this one all the time. People tell me about things that are either good or bad in their workplaces in the course of my consulting, but the descriptions are fairly broad. They are at the concept level. Things like,...

Scaling Up Excellence (Review)

Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Crown Business, 2014 I am particularly excited to review this book because I had the privilege to get an advance copy from the authors (it doesn’t actually go on...
Jamie Notter