by Jamie Notter | Jul 30, 2013 | Culture, Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to everyone who read last week’s Open Letter to HR post. And particularly thanks to those who said “I’m with you, so what’s next?” In this post, we’re going to get started. And I really should apologize for the deceptive post...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 29, 2013 | Announcements, Conflict, Free Resources, Managing People
My second White Paper in the “Making it Work” series is out! Click here to go to the download form and get it for free. This one is about one of my favorite topics: conflict. I started my career twenty years ago in the conflict resolution field, and to...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 23, 2013 | Humanize, Leadership, Managing People
Dear Human Resources Field, I’ve been struggling with how to say this in the most supportive and effective way possible (because I do love you), but after a seemingly endless stream of imperfect drafts that I have deleted, I’ve decided to just blurt it out: I’m done...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 19, 2013 | Books and Reading, Humanize, Managing People
In Chapter 3 of Humanize, we challenge traditional thinking on management. We pick on three areas specifically: strategic planning, human resource management, and leadership. I always expected that we would receive some vocal push-back on these points. There are a lot...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 18, 2013 | Humanize, Individual Development, Managing People
There’s another stellar article in the June HBR (posts here and here are about the other good one). This one is about the new employer-employee contract (check out this site). I hear a fair amount of complaints about the decline in employee loyalty. Nobody stays...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 27, 2013 | Managing People
Here’s a great article from Business Insider that exposes an inconvenient truth: we have no idea what we’re doing when we hire people. As the article states at the beginning, this is kind of the message that Brad Pitt’s character was bringing to the...
