by Jamie Notter | Mar 11, 2014 | Culture, Learning
That was one of the lessons from the session I delivered today at ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference (the slides are embedded below; if you can’t see them, click here). In the session I told (once again) the story of Fitness Australia, an association that...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 17, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Social Media
Yesterday I commented on the number one frustration I hear from the non-users of social media (that it’s all about what people had for lunch). Today we’ll tackle another popular attack from a few years ago: that social media is dominated by amateurs. One...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 22, 2013 | Culture, Leadership, Learning
I had not intended to create a little CEO theme on the blog, but after Monday’s post on the role of the CEO (still looking for CEOs to weigh in on that, by the way), I came across an interesting article in the MIT Sloan Management Review about the “CEO...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 15, 2013 | Individual Development, Learning
Everyone is part of a community that shares a certain worldview. They see things the same way. They “know” certain things are true. It’s actually quite reassuring when you gather together and your own view of the world is confirmed by others in your...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 10, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Managing People
I know that we want it to be useful, but it isn’t. I understand the desire, though. We are constantly told that it costs tons of money to hire a new staff person. That makes turnover a very bad thing, so the metric itself can be considered a measure of failure....
by Jamie Notter | Oct 8, 2013 | Humanize, Individual Development, Leadership, Learning
From an interesting New York Times interview with Michael Gould, the CEO of Bloomingdales, here are some Humanize-related quotes: I believe the business I’m in is giving people an opportunity to grow. At the end of the day, no one remembers anyone’s numbers, no matter...
