by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2009 | Culture, Leadership, Learning, Managing People
I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That's authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I expect leadership to exist everywhere in the...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 2, 2009 | Individual Development, Leadership
I've been thinking a lot about "truth" lately. It started with the article I wrote and the session I did at the CalSAE conference in April. But a couple of weeks ago, inspired by Maddie's post, I challenged everyone: what would YOU do differently if...
by Jamie Notter | May 21, 2009 | Culture, Leadership
Like Joe Gerstandt, I can't let the exquisite post by Maddie Grant about the paradox of identity go unremarked. Maddie was reflecting initially on the paradoxes of identity in the "digital age," where we create identity profiles in different social...
by Jamie Notter | May 7, 2009 | Individual Development, Leadership
I have been thinking about all the great points my friends made about leadership as part of the Top 3 meme (see all responses in this post). As is my way, I am trying to pull some themes out of what was written, which is not an easy task with thirty-six items...
by Jamie Notter | May 6, 2009 | Individual Development, Leadership
I started the "Leadership Top 3" meme a few weeks ago (quite accidentally) and was excited to see eleven TWELVE THIRTEEN people post responses! It's a LOT of good stuff, and I'm working on some synthesis, but in the mean time, I thought I'd...
by Jamie Notter | May 1, 2009 | Leadership
On Tuesday I did two sessions at the CalSAE conference, one of which was titled "Truth-Telling in Challenging Times (and Challenging Situations). It was the first time I did this session, and I was happy with how it went. I also wrote an article about that topic...
